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Peculiar velocity cosmology with type Ia supernovae

Type Ia Supernovae have yet again the opportunity to revolutionize the field of cosmology as the new generation of surveys are acquiring thousands of nearby SNeIa opening a new era in cosmology: the direct measurement of the growth of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-27 R. Graziani , M. Rigault , N. Regnault , Ph. Gris , A. Möller , P. Antilogus , P. Astier , M. Betoule , S. Bongard , M. Briday , J. Cohen-Tanugi , Y. Copin , H. M. Courtois , D. Fouchez , E. Gangler , D. Guinet , A. J. Hawken , Y. -L. Kim , P. -F. Léget , J. Neveu , P. Ntelis , Ph. Rosnet , E. Nuss

Observations of Type Ia Supernovae, and Challenges for Cosmology

Observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) reveal correlations between their luminosities and light-curve shapes, and between their spectral sequence and photometric sequence. Assuming SNe Ia do not evolve at different redshifts, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weidong Li , Alexei V. Filippenko

The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and First Data Release

The Foundation Supernova Survey aims to provide a large, high-fidelity, homogeneous, and precisely-calibrated low-redshift Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) sample for cosmology. The calibration of the current low-redshift SN sample is the largest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Ryan J. Foley , Daniel Scolnic , Armin Rest , S. W. Jha , Y. -C. Pan , A. G. Riess , P. Challis , K. C. Chambers , D. A. Coulter , K. G. Dettman , M. M. Foley , O. D. Fox , M. E. Huber , D. O. Jones , C. D. Kilpatrick , R. P. Kirshner , A. S. B. Schultz , M. R. Siebert , H. A. Flewelling , B. Gibson , E. A. Magnier , J. A. Miller , N. Primak , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters , M. Willman

Spectra of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae and a Comparison with their Low-Redshift Counterparts

We present spectra for 14 high-redshift (0.17 < z < 0.83) supernovae, which were discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project as part of a campaign to measure cosmological parameters. The spectra are used to determine the redshift and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , G. Aldering , R. Amanullah , M. S. Burns , A. Conley , S. E. Deustua , R. Ellis , S. Fabbro , V. Fadeyev , G. Folatelli , G. Garavini , R. Gibbons , G. Goldhaber , A. Goobar , D. E. Groom , A. G. Kim , R. A. Knop , M. Kowalski , C. Lidman , S. Nobili , P. E. Nugent , R. Pain , C. R. Pennypacker , S. Perlmutter , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , G. Sainton , B. E. Schaefer , E. Smith , A. L. Spadafora , V. Stanishev , R. C. Thomas , N. A. Walton , L. Wang , W. M. Wood-Vasey

Supernova Cosmology and the ESSENCE project

The proper usage of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as distance indicators has revolutionized cosmology, and added a new dominant component to the energy density of the Universe, dark energy. Following the discovery and confirmation era, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jesper Sollerman , Claudio Aguilera , Andy Becker , Stephane Blondin , Pete Challis , Alejandro Clocchiatti , Alex Filippenko , Ryan Foley , Peter M. Garnavich , Malcolm Hicken , Saurabh Jha , Robert Kirshner , Kevin Krisciunas , Bruno Leibundgut , Weidong Li , Thomas Matheson , Gajus Miknaitis , Armin Rest , Adam G. Riess , Maria Elena Salvo , Brian P. Schmidt , Chris Smith , Jason Spyromilio , Chris Stubbs , Nicholas B. Suntzeff , John L. Tonry , Michael Wood-Vasey , Brian Barris , Tamara Davis , Edvard Mortsell

Redshift-Independent Distances to Type Ia Supernovae

We describe a procedure for accurately determining luminosity distances to Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) without knowledge of redshift. This procedure, which may be used as an extension of any of the various distance determination methods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Brian J. Barris , John L. Tonry

ZTF SN Ia DR2: Overview

We present the first homogeneous release of several thousand Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), all having spectroscopic classification, and spectroscopic redshifts for half the sample. This release, named the "DR2", contains 3628 nearby (z <…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Mickael Rigault , Mathew Smith , Ariel Goobar , Kate Maguire , Georgios Dimitriadis , Umut Burgaz , Suhail Dhawan , Jesper Sollerman , Nicolas Regnault , Marek Kowalski , Melissa Amenouche , Marie Aubert , Chloé Barjou-Delayre , Julian Bautista , Josh S. Bloom , Bastien Carreres , Tracy X. Chen , Yannick Copin , Maxime Deckers , Dominique Fouchez , Christoffer Fremling , Lluis Galbany , Madeleine Ginolin , Matthew Graham , Mancy M. Kasliwal , W. D'Arcy Kenworthy , Young-Lo Kim , Dylan Kuhn , Frank F. Masci , Tomas Müller-Bravo , Adam Miller , Joel Johansson , Jakob Nordin , Peter Nugent , Igor Andreoni , Eric Bellm , Marc Betoule , Mahmoud Osman , Dan Perley , Brodie Popovic , Philippe Rosnet , Damiano Rosselli , Florian Ruppin , Robert Senzel , Ben Rusholme , Tassilo Schweyer , Jacco H. Terwel , Alice Townsend , Andy Tzanidakis , Avery Wold , Josiah Purdum , Yu-Jing Qin , Benjamin Racine , Simeon Reusch , Reed Riddle , Lin Yan

First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters

We present the first cosmological parameter constraints using measurements of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). The analysis uses a subsample of 207 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , P. Andersen , C. Angus , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , S. Avila , B. A. Bassett , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. Brout , P. Brown , D. L. Burke , J. Calcino , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , R. Casas , F. J. Castander , R. Cawthon , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , J. De Vicente , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , A. V. Filippenko , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , T. Giannantonio , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , R. R. Gupta , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , J. K. Hoormann , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Kasai , S. Kent , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , R. P. Kirshner , E. Kovacs , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , J. Lasker , G. F. Lewis , T. S. Li , C. Lidman , M. Lima , H. Lin , E. Macaulay , M. A. G. Maia , K. S. Mandel , M. March , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , V. Miranda , J. J. Mohr , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , A. Möller , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , P. Nugent , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , A. A. Plazas , M. Pursiainen , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , D. Scolnic , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. Sharp , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , N. E. Sommer , H. Spinka , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , E. Swann , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , P. Wiseman , R. C. Wolf , B. Yanny , B. Zhang , Y. Zhang

The supernova cosmology cookbook: Bayesian numerical recipes

Theoretical and observational cosmology have enjoyed a number of significant successes over the last two decades. Cosmic microwave background measurements from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Planck, together with large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 N. V. Karpenka

How to Find Gravitationally Lensed Type Ia Supernovae

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that are multiply imaged by gravitational lensing can extend the SN Ia Hubble diagram to very high redshifts $(z\gtrsim 2)$, probe potential SN Ia evolution, and deliver high-precision constraints on $H_0$, $w$,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Daniel A. Goldstein , Peter E. Nugent

The Discovery of the Most Distant Known Type Ia Supernova at Redshift 1.914

We present the discovery of a Type Ia supernova (SN) at redshift $z = 1.914$ from the CANDELS multi-cycle treasury program on the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope (HST)}. This SN was discovered in the infrared using the Wide-Field Camera 3,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 David O. Jones , Steven A. Rodney , Adam G. Riess , Bahram Mobasher , Tomas Dahlen , Curtis McCully , Teddy F. Frederiksen , Stefano Casertano , Jens Hjorth , Charles R. Keeton , Anton Koekemoer , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Tommy G. Wiklind , Peter Challis , Or Graur , Brian Hayden , Brandon Patel , Benjamin J. Weiner , Alexei V. Filippenko , Peter Garnavich , Saurabh W. Jha , Robert P. Kirshner , Henry C. Ferguson , Norman A. Grogin , Dale Kocevski

HOLISMOKES XVII: Detecting strongly lensed SNe Ia from time series of multi-band LSST-like imaging data

Strong gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe), though rare, are exceptionally valuable probes for cosmology and astrophysics. Upcoming time-domain surveys like the Vera Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) offer a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Satadru Bag , Raoul Canameras , Sherry H. Suyu , Stefan Schuldt , Stefan Taubenberger , Irham Taufik Andika , Alejandra Melo

Detection and classification of supernovae beyond z~2 redshift with the James Webb Space Telescope

Future time-domain surveys for transient events in the near- and mid-infrared bands will significantly extend our understanding about the physics of the early Universe. In this paper we study the implications of a deep (~27 mag), long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Eniko Regos , Jozsef Vinko

Constraints on dark energy with the LOSS SN Ia sample

We present a cosmological analysis of the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) photometry sample introduced by Ganeshalingam et al. (2010). These SNe provide an effective anchor point to estimate cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-04 Mohan Ganeshalingam , Weidong Li , Alexei V. Filippenko

SNLS Spectroscopy: Testing for Evolution in Type Ia Supernovae

Aims: We present a quantitative study of a new data set of high redshift Type Ia supernovae spectra, observed at the Gemini telescopes during the first 34 months of the Supernova Legacy Survey. During this time 123 supernovae candidates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Bronder , I. M. Hook , P. Astier , D. Balam , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. A. Howell , J. D. Neill , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , M. Sullivan , S. Baumont , S. Fabbro , M. Filliol , S. Perlmutter , P. Ripoche

The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Dataset and Light-Curve Release

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Dan Scolnic , Dillon Brout , Anthony Carr , Adam G. Riess , Tamara M. Davis , Arianna Dwomoh , David O. Jones , Noor Ali , Pranav Charvu , Rebecca Chen , Erik R. Peterson , Brodie Popovic , Benjamin M. Rose , Charlotte Wood , Peter J. Brown , Ken Chambers , David A. Coulter , Kyle G. Dettman , Georgios Dimitriadis , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Saurabh W. Jha , Charles D. Kilpatrick , Robert P. Kirshner , Yen-Chen Pan , Armin Rest , Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Matthew R. Siebert , Benjamin E. Stahl , WeiKang Zheng

Measuring the Properties of Dark Energy with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. I. Systematic Uncertainty from Core-Collapse Supernova Contamination

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 D. O. Jones , D. M. Scolnic , A. G. Riess , R. Kessler , A. Rest , R. P. Kirshner , E. Berger , C. A. Ortega , R. J. Foley , R. Chornock , P. J. Challis , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , M. E. Huber , N. Kaiser , R. -P. Kudritzki , N. Metcalfe , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters

Results from the Supernova Photometric Classification Challenge

We report results from the Supernova Photometric Classification Challenge (SNPCC), a publicly released mix of simulated supernovae (SNe), with types (Ia, Ibc, and II) selected in proportion to their expected rate. The simulation was…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-03 Richard Kessler , Bruce Bassett , Pavel Belov , Vasudha Bhatnagar , Heather Campbell , Alex Conley , Joshua A. Frieman , Alexandre Glazov , Santiago Gonzalez-Gaitan , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh Jha , Stephen Kuhlmann , Martin Kunz , Hubert Lampeitl , Ashish Mahabal , James Newling , Robert C. Nichol , David Parkinson , Ninan Sajeeth Philip , Dovi Poznanski , Joseph W. Richards , Steven A. Rodney , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , Mathew Smith , Maximilian Stritzinger , Melvin Varughese

Photometric selection of Type Ia supernovae in the Supernova Legacy Survey

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Bazin , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Rich , E. Aubourg , P. Astier , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. Hardin , I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , M. Sullivan , N. Fourmanoit , S. Gonzalez-Gaitan , C. Lidman , S. Perlmutter , P. Ripoche , E. S. Walker

The Fall 2004 SDSS Supernova Survey

In preparation for the Supernova Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II, a proposed 3-year extension to the SDSS, we have conducted an early engineering and science run during the fall of 2004, which consisted of approximately 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masao Sako , Roger Romani , Josh Frieman , Jen Adelman-McCarthy , Andrew Becker , Fritz DeJongh , Ben Dilday , Juan Estrada , John Hendry , Jon Holtzman , Jared Kaplan , Rick Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , Gajus Miknaitis , Adam Riess , Douglas Tucker , J. Barentine , R. Blandford , H. Brewington , J. Dembicky , M. Harvanek , S. Hawley , C. Hogan , D. Johnston , S. Kahn , B. Ketzeback , S. Kleinman , J. Krzesinski , D. Lamenti , D. Long , R. McMillan , P. Newman , A. Nitta , R. Nichol , R. Scranton , E. Sheldon , S. Snedden , C. Stoughton , D. York , the SDSS Collaboration