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The explosive death of a star as a supernova is one of the most dramatic events in the Universe. Supernovae have an outsized impact on many areas of astrophysics: they are major contributors to the chemical enrichment of the cosmos and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Saurabh W. Jha , Kate Maguire , Mark Sullivan

Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), the thermonuclear explosions of C/O white dwarf stars in binary systems, are phenomena that remain poorly understood. The complexity of their progenitor systems, explosion physics and intrinsic diversity poses…

These lecture notes intend to form a short pedagogical introduction to the use of typical type Ia-Supernovae (hereafter SNIa) as standard candles to determine the energy density of the universe. Problems of principle for taking SNIa as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-20 M. Signore , D. Puy

Spectroscopic and photometric properties of low and high-z supernovae Ia (SNe Ia) have been analyzed in order to achieve a better understanding of their diversity and to identify possible SN Ia sub-types. We use wavelet transformed spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-05 V. Arsenijevic , S. Fabbro , A. M. Mourao , A. J. Rica da Silva

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are powerful tools for measuring the expansion history of the universe, but the impact of dust around SNe Ia remains unknown and is a critical systematic uncertainty. One way to improve our empirical description…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Benjamin M. Rose , Brodie Popovic , Dan Scolnic , Dillon Brout

Relatively uniform light curves and spectral evolution of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have led to the use of SNe Ia as a ``standard candle'' to determine cosmological parameters, such as the Hubble constant, the density parameter, and the…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are important cosmological probes and contributors to galactic nucleosynthesis, particularly of the iron group elements. To improve both their reliability as cosmological probes and to understand galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 Zach Yarbrough , E. Baron , James M. DerKacy , I. Washington , Peter Hoeflich , Anthony Burrow

Supernovae Ia (SNe Ia) light curves have been used to prove the universe is expanding. As standard candles, SNe Ia appear to indicate the rate of expansion has increased in the past and is now decreasing. This independent evaluation of SNe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jerry W. Jensen

Here we present 1701 light curves of 1550 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that will be used to infer cosmological parameters as part of the Pantheon+ SN analysis and the SH0ES (Supernovae and H0 for the Equation of…

We study the properties of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) as functions of the radial distance from their host galaxy centers. Using a sample of 62 SNe Ia with reliable luminosity, reddening, and decline rate determinations, we find no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Valentin D. Ivanov , Mario Hamuy , Philip A. Pinto

A new method to study the intrinsic color and luminosity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is presented. A metric space built using principal component analysis (PCA) on spectral series SNe Ia between -12.5 and +17.5 days from B maximum is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 M. Sasdelli , E. E. O. Ishida , W. Hillebrandt , C. Ashall , P. A. Mazzali , S. Prentice

The properties of supernovae (SNe) are reviewed. It is shown that the observed characteristics of the morphological classes of SNe (types Ia, Ib/c, II) can be explained in terms of two basic explosion mechanisms, i.e. core collapse of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Nino Panagia

We describe catalog-level simulations of Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) light curves in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), and in low-redshift samples from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Carnegie Supernova Project…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 R. Kessler , D. Brout , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , B. Zhang , P. Andersen , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , S. Crawford , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , K. Glazebrook , J. K. Hoormann , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , M. March , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , Y. -C. Pan , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

We present a new method to photometrically delineate between various sub-types of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). Using the color-stretch parameters, $s_{BV}$ or $s_{gr}$, and the time of i-band primary maximum relative to the B-band or g-band…

We present a sample of 485 photometrically identified Type Ia supernova candidates mined from the first three years of data of the CFHT SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS). The images were submitted to a deferred processing independent of the…

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are explosions of white dwarf stars that facilitate exquisite measurements of cosmological expansion history, but improvements in accuracy and precision are hindered by observational biases. Of particular concern…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-22 P. Wiseman , M. Sullivan , M. Smith , B. Popovic

Substantial effort has been devoted to the characterization of transient phenomena from photometric information. Automated approaches to this problem have taken advantage of complete phase-coverage of an event, limiting their use for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-06 Alexander Gagliano , Gabriella Contardo , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Alex I. Malz , Patrick D. Aleo

With the upcoming Vera C.~Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), it is expected that only $\sim 0.1\%$ of all transients will be classified spectroscopically. To conduct studies of rare transients, such as Type I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Brian Hsu , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

While recent supernova cosmology research has benefited from improved measurements, current analysis approaches are not statistically optimal and will prove insufficient for future surveys. This paper discusses the limitations of current…

We construct the Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) luminosity function (LF) using the Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey (BTS) catalogue. While this magnitude-limited survey has an unprecedented number of objects, it suffers from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-14 Amir Sharon , Doron Kushnir