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We re-examine the contentious question of constraints on anisotropic expansion from Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) in the light of a novel determination of peculiar velocities, which are crucial to test isotropy with supernovae out to distances…

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Motivated by the fact that calibrated light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have become a major tool to determine the expansion history of the Universe, considerable attention has been given to, both, observations and models of these…

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The original formulation of BEAMS - Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species - showed how to use a dataset contaminated by points of multiple underlying types to perform unbiased parameter estimation. An example is cosmological…

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We present Sequential Neural Variational Inference (SNVI), an approach to perform Bayesian inference in models with intractable likelihoods. SNVI combines likelihood-estimation (or likelihood-ratio-estimation) with variational inference to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-20 Manuel Glöckler , Michael Deistler , Jakob H. Macke

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

The use of advanced statistical analysis tools is crucial in order to improve cosmological parameter estimates via removal of systematic errors and identification of previously unaccounted for cosmological signals. Here we demonstrate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-29 Caroline Heneka , Valerio Marra , Luca Amendola

In this work we investigated methods for the accurate and efficient incorporation of photometrically classified supernovae into cosmological analyses, and to assess the impact of the additional uncertainty associated with this procedure on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Marcos P. Freaza , Ribamar R. R. Reis

We present the analysis of the first set of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) by the Carnegie Supernova Project. Well-sampled, high-precision optical (ugriBV) and near-infrared (NIR; YJHKs) light curves obtained in a well-understood…

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,…

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We present a method for selecting high-redshift type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) located via rolling SN searches. The technique, using both color and magnitude information of events from only 2-3 epochs of multi-band real-time photometry, is…

Photometric classification of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is critical for cosmological studies but remains difficult due to class imbalance and observational noise. While deep learning models have been explored, they are often…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Anurag Garg

While many studies have shown a correlation between properties of the light curves of Type Ia SN (SNe Ia) and properties of their host galaxies, it remains unclear what is driving these correlations. We introduce a new direct method to…

The Pan-STARRS (PS1) Medium Deep Survey discovered over 5,000 likely supernovae (SNe) but obtained spectral classifications for just 10% of its SN candidates. We measured spectroscopic host galaxy redshifts for 3,147 of these likely SNe and…

The light curves of Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) are powered by gamma-rays emitted by the decay of radioactive elements such as $^{56}$Ni and its decay products. These gamma-rays are downscattered,absorbed, and eventually reprocessed into the…

(abridged) Ongoing supernova (SN) surveys find hundreds of candidates, that require confirmation for their use. Traditional classification based on followup spectroscopy of all candidates is virtually impossible for these large samples. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dovi Poznanski , Dan Maoz , Avishay Gal-Yam

Traditional cosmological inference using Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) have used stretch- and color-corrected fits of SN Ia light curves and assumed a resulting fiducial mean and symmetric intrinsic dispersion for the resulting relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-17 Kara A. Ponder , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Andrew R. Zentner

We use rest-frame optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of 42 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Carnegie Supernova Project at low-$z$ and 37 from the RAISIN Survey at high-$z$ to investigate correlations between SN Ia host galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Stephen Thorp , Kaisey S. Mandel , David O. Jones , Robert P. Kirshner , Peter M. Challis

In recent years there has been significant debate around the impact of dust on SNe Ia, a major source of uncertainty in cosmological analyses. We perform the first validation of the probabilistic hierarchical SN Ia SED model BayeSN on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-03 Matthew Grayling , Brodie Popovic

The supernovae Ia data are used to analyze two general exact solutions for quintessence models. The best fit values for $\Omega_{m0}$ are smaller than in the $\Lambda $-term model, but still acceptable. With present-day data, it is not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Pavlov , C. Rubano , M. Sazhin , P. Scudellaro

We analyze the three-year SDSS-II Superernova (SN) Survey data and identify a sample of 1070 photometric SN Ia candidates based on their multi-band light curve data. This sample consists of SN candidates with no spectroscopic confirmation,…