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Accounting for Selection Effects in Supernova Cosmology with Simulation-Based Inference and Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are thermonuclear exploding stars that can be used to put constraints on the nature of our universe. One challenge with population analyses of SNe Ia is Malmquist bias, where we preferentially observe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-24 Benjamin M. Boyd , Matthew Grayling , Stephen Thorp , Kaisey S. Mandel

STAR NRE: Solving supernova selection effects with set-based truncated auto-regressive neural ratio estimation

Accounting for selection effects in supernova type Ia (SN Ia) cosmology is crucial for unbiased cosmological parameter inference -- even more so for the next generation of large, mostly photometric-only surveys. The conventional "bias…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Konstantin Karchev , Roberto Trotta

Improved constraints on cosmological parameters from SNIa data

We present a new method based on a Bayesian hierarchical model to extract constraints on cosmological parameters from SNIa data obtained with the SALT-II lightcurve fitter. We demonstrate with simulated data sets that our method delivers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 M. C. March , R. Trotta , P. Berkes , G. D. Starkman , P. M. Vaudrevange

Improved Treatment of Host-Galaxy Correlations in Cosmological Analyses With Type Ia Supernovae

Improving the use of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) as standard candles requires a better approach to incorporate the relationship between SNIa and the properties of their host galaxies. Using a spectroscopically-confirmed sample of $\sim$1600…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Brodie Popovic , Dillon Brout , Richard Kessler , Dan Scolnic , Lisa Lu

Cosmology with Photometric Surveys of Type Ia Supernovae

We discuss the extent to which photometric measurements alone can be used to identify Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) and to determine redshift and other parameters of interest for cosmological studies. We fit the light curve data of the type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , Xuelei Chen

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological biases from supernova photometric classification

Cosmological analyses of samples of photometrically-identified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) depend on understanding the effects of 'contamination' from core-collapse and peculiar SN Ia events. We employ a rigorous analysis on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 M. Vincenzi , M. Sullivan , A. Möller , P. Armstrong , B. A. Bassett , D. Brout , D. Carollo , A. Carr , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , O. Graur , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , E. Kovacs , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , B. Popovic , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , G. Taylor , B. E. Tucker , P. Wiseman , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , J. Asorey , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson

Bayesian constraints on dark matter halo properties using gravitationally-lensed supernovae

A hierarchical Bayesian method is applied to the analysis of Type-Ia supernovae (SNIa) observations to constrain the properties of the dark matter haloes of galaxies along the SNIa lines-of-sight via their gravitational lensing effect. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. V. Karpenka , M. C. March , F. Feroz , M. P. Hobson

A Fully Photometric Approach to Type Ia Supernova Cosmology in the LSST Era: Host Galaxy Redshifts and Supernova Classification

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is expected to discover nearly a million Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), offering an unprecedented opportunity to constrain dark energy. The vast majority of these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Ayan Mitra , Richard Kessler , Rebecca C. Chen , Alex Gagliano , Matthew Grayling , Surhud More , Gautham Narayan , Helen Qu , Srinivasan Raghunathan , Alex I. Malz , Michelle Lochner , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

BAHAMAS: new SNIa analysis reveals inconsistencies with standard cosmology

We present results obtained by applying our BAyesian HierArchical Modeling for the Analysis of Supernova cosmology (BAHAMAS) software package to the 740 spectroscopically confirmed supernovae type Ia (SNIa) from the "Joint Light-curve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 H. Shariff , X. Jiao , R. Trotta , D. A. van Dyk

The Dark Energy Survey: Cosmology Results With ~1500 New High-redshift Type Ia Supernovae Using The Full 5-year Dataset

We present cosmological constraints from the sample of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) discovered during the full five years of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Supernova Program. In contrast to most previous cosmological samples, in which SN are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 DES Collaboration , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Acevedo , M. Aguena , A. Alarcon , S. Allam , O. Alves , A. Amon , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , P. Armstrong , J. Asorey , S. Avila , D. Bacon , B. A. Bassett , K. Bechtol , P. H. Bernardinelli , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , H. Camacho , R. Camilleri , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , A. Carr , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , C. Chang , R. Chen , A. Choi , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. Crocce , T. M. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , M. Dixon , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , A. Ferté , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , K. Glazebrook , O. Graur , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , B. Jain , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , E. Kasai , L. Kelsey , S. Kent , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , R. P. Kirshner , E. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , J. Lee , S. Lee , G. F. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , H. Lin , U. Malik , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , J. Mould , J. Muir , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , M. Paterno , W. J. Percival , M. E. S. Pereira , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , B. Popovic , A. Porredon , J. Prat , H. Qu , M. Raveri , M. Rodríguez-Monroy , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , B. Rose , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , P. Shah , J. Allyn. Smith , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , N. Suntzeff , M. E. C. Swanson , B. O. Sánchez , G. Tarle , G. Taylor , D. Thomas , C. To , M. Toy , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , D. L. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , M. Vincenzi , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , P. Wiseman , M. Yamamoto , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang

Measuring Type Ia Supernova Populations of Stretch and Color and Predicting Distance Biases

Simulations of Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) surveys are a critical tool for correcting biases in the analysis of SNIa to infer cosmological parameters. Large scale Monte Carlo simulations include a thorough treatment of observation history,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Daniel Scolnic , Richard Kessler

Photometric Supernova Cosmology with BEAMS and SDSS-II

Supernova cosmology without spectroscopic confirmation is an exciting new frontier which we address here with the Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species (BEAMS) algorithm and the full three years of data from the Sloan Digital Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Renée Hlozek , Martin Kunz , Bruce Bassett , Mat Smith , James Newling , Melvin Varughese , Rick Kessler , Joe Bernstein , Heather Campbell , Ben Dilday , Bridget Falck , Joshua Frieman , Steve Kulhmann , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , Robert C. Nichol , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider

Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets

We present a new compilation of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), a new dataset of low-redshift nearby-Hubble-flow SNe and new analysis procedures to work with these heterogeneous compilations. This ``Union'' compilation of 414 SN Ia, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 M. Kowalski , D. Rubin , G. Aldering , R. J. Agostinho , A. Amadon , R. Amanullah , C. Balland , K. Barbary , G. Blanc , P. J. Challis , A. Conley , N. V. Connolly , R. Covarrubias , K. S. Dawson , S. E. Deustua , R. Ellis , S. Fabbro , V. Fadeyev , X. Fan , B. Farris , G. Folatelli , B. L. Frye , G. Garavini , E. L. Gates , L. Germany , G. Goldhaber , B. Goldman , A. Goobar , D. E. Groom , J. Haissinski , D. Hardin , I. Hook , S. Kent , A. G. Kim , R. A. Knop , C. Lidman , E. V. Linder , J. Mendez , J. Meyers , G. J. Miller , M. Moniez , A. M. Mourao , H. Newberg , S. Nobili , P. E. Nugent , R. Pain , O. Perdereau , S. Perlmutter , M. M. Phillips , V. Prasad , R. Quimby , N. Regnault , J. Rich , E. P. Rubenstein , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , F. D. Santos , B. E. Schaefer , R. A. Schommer , R. C. Smith , A. M. Soderberg , A. L. Spadafora , L. -G. Strolger , M. Strovink , N. B. Suntzeff , N. Suzuki , R. C. Thomas , N. A. Walton , L. Wang , W. M. Wood-Vasey , J. L. Yun

Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species: Towards cosmology with a million supernovae

Observed data is often contaminated by undiscovered interlopers, leading to biased parameter estimation. Here we present BEAMS (Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species) which significantly improves on the standard maximum likelihood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Kunz , Bruce A. Bassett , Renee Hlozek

Correcting Type Ia Supernova Distances for Selection Biases and Contamination in Photometrically Identified Samples

We present a new technique to create a bin-averaged Hubble Diagram (HD) from photometrically identified SN~Ia data. The resulting HD is corrected for selection biases and contamination from core collapse (CC) SNe, and can be used to infer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Richard Kessler , Dan Scolnic

Binning is Sinning: Redemption for Hubble Diagram using Photometrically Classified Type Ia Supernovae

Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species (BEAMS) is implemented in the BEAMS with Bias Corrections (BBC) framework to produce a redshift-binned Hubble diagram (HD) for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). BBC corrects for selection effects…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 Richard Kessler , Maria Vincenzi , Patrick Armstrong

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation

We present the analysis underpinning the measurement of cosmological parameters from 207 spectroscopically classified type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first three years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), spanning a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-04 D. Brout , D. Scolnic , R. Kessler , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , R. R. Gupta , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Sako , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , B. Zhang , P. Andersen , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , B. A. Bassett , P. Brown , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , J. K. Hoormann , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , M. March , V. Miranda , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , M. Jarvis , T. Jeltema , E. Krause , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

Cosmology with Photometrically-Classified Type Ia Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

We present the cosmological analysis of 752 photometrically-classified Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained from the full Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova (SN) Survey, supplemented with host-galaxy spectroscopy from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Heather Campbell , Chris B. D'Andrea , Robert C. Nichol , Masao Sako , Mathew Smith , Hubert Lampeitl , Matthew D. Olmstead , Bruce Bassett , Rahul Biswas , Peter Brown , David Cinabro , Kyle S. Dawson , Ben Dilday , Ryan J. Foley , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter Garnavich , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh W. Jha , Steve Kuhlmann , Martin Kunz , John Marriner , Ramon Miquel , Michael Richmond , Adam Riess , Donald P. Schneider , Jesper Sollerman , Matt Taylor , Gong-Bo Zhao

Assessment of the Systematic Uncertainties in the Cosmological Analysis of the SDSS Supernovae Photometric Sample

Improvement in the precision of measurements of cosmological parameters with Type Ia Supernovae (SNIa) is expected to come from large photometrically identified (photometric) SN samples. Here we re-analyse the SDSS photometric SN sample,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Brodie Popovic , Dan Scolnic , Richard Kessler

The Dark Energy Survey 5-year photometrically identified Type Ia Supernovae

As part of the cosmology analysis using Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we present photometrically identified SN Ia samples using multi-band light-curves and host galaxy redshifts. For this analysis, we use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 A. Möller , M. Smith , M. Sako , M. Sullivan , M. Vincenzi , P. Wiseman , P. Armstrong , J. Asorey , D. Brout , D. Carollo , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , D. Scolnic , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. March , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga