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The Dark Energy Survey : Detection of weak lensing magnification of supernovae and constraints on dark matter haloes

The residuals of the distance moduli of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) relative to a Hubble diagram fit contain information about the inhomogeneity of the universe, due to weak lensing magnification by foreground matter. By correlating the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-10 P. Shah , T. M. Davis , D. Bacon , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , R. Kessler , O. Lahav , J. Lee , C. Lidman , R. C. Nichol , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Sullivan , M. Vincenzi , P. Wiseman , S. Allam , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , K. Bechtol , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. Brout , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , C. Doux , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , M. Gatti , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , R. Miquel , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , N. Weaverdyck

Supernova Host Galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey: I. Deep Coadds, Photometry, and Stellar Masses

The five-year Dark Energy Survey supernova programme (DES-SN) is one of the largest and deepest transient surveys to date in terms of volume and number of supernovae. Identifying and characterising the host galaxies of transients plays a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 P. Wiseman , M. Smith , M. Childress , L. Kelsey , A. Möller , R. R. Gupta , E. Swann , C. R. Angus , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , R. J. Foley , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , C. P. Gutiérrez , R. Kessler , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , R. C. Nichol , M. Pursiainen , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , N. E. Sommer , M. Sullivan , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , W. G. Hartley , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. Wilkinson

DES13S2cmm: The First Superluminous Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey

We present DES13S2cmm, the first spectroscopically-confirmed superluminous supernova (SLSN) from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We briefly discuss the data and search algorithm used to find this event in the first year of DES operations, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Papadopoulos , C. B. D'Andrea , M. Sullivan , R. C. Nichol , K. Barbary , R. Biswas , P. J. Brown , R. A. Covarrubias , D. A. Finley , J. A. Fischer , R. J. Foley , D. Goldstein , R. R. Gupta , R. Kessler , E. Kovacs , S. E. Kuhlmann , C. Lidman , M. March , P. E. Nugent , M. Sako , R. C. Smith , H. Spinka , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , F. Abdalla , S. S. Allam , M. Banerji , J. P. Bernstein , R. A. Bernstein , A. Carnero , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , T. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , B. Flaugher , J. A. Frieman , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , K. Honscheid , D. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , J. L. Marshall , K. W. Merritt , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , N. A. Roe , A. K. Romer , E. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , B. X. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla , M. Soares- Santos , E. Suchyta , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. L. Tucker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Zuntz

Berkeley Supernova Ia Program I: Observations, Data Reduction, and Spectroscopic Sample of 582 Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae

In this first paper in a series we present 1298 low-redshift (z\leq0.2) optical spectra of 582 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed from 1989 through 2008 as part of the Berkeley SN Ia Program (BSNIP). 584 spectra of 199 SNe Ia have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeffrey M. Silverman , Ryan J. Foley , Alexei V. Filippenko , Mohan Ganeshalingam , Aaron J. Barth , Ryan Chornock , Christopher V. Griffith , Jason J. Kong , Nicholas Lee , Douglas C. Leonard , Thomas Matheson , Emily G. Miller , Thea N. Steele , Brian J. Barris , Joshua S. Bloom , Bethany E. Cobb , Alison L. Coil , Louis-Benoit Desroches , Elinor L. Gates , Luis C. Ho , Saurabh W. Jha , Michael T. Kandrashoff , Weidong Li , Kaisey S. Mandel , Maryam Modjaz , Matthew R. Moore , Robin E. Mostardi , Marina S. Papenkova , Sung Park , Daniel A. Perley , Dovi Poznanski , Cassie A. Reuter , James Scala , Franklin J. D. Serduke , Joseph C. Shields , Brandon J. Swift , John L. Tonry , Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Xiaofeng Wang , Diane S. Wong

Utilizing Type Ia Supernovae in a Large, Fast, Imaging Survey to Constrain Dark Energy

We study the utility of a large sample of type Ia supernovae that might be observed in an imaging survey that rapidly scans a large fraction of the sky for constraining dark energy. We consider information from the traditional luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Andrew R. Zentner , Suman Bhattacharya

Distance Measurements from Supernovae and Dark Energy Constraints

Constraints on dark energy from current observational data are sensitive to how distances are measured from Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data. We find that flux-averaging of SNe Ia can be used to test the presence of unknown systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yun Wang

Supernova Simulations and Strategies For the Dark Energy Survey

We present an analysis of supernova light curves simulated for the upcoming Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova search. The simulations employ a code suite that generates and fits realistic light curves in order to obtain distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 J. P. Bernstein , R. Kessler , S. Kuhlmann , R. Biswas , E. Kovacs , G. Aldering , I. Crane , C. B. D'Andrea , D. A. Finley , J. A. Frieman , T. Hufford , M. J. Jarvis , A. G. Kim , J. Marriner , P. Mukherjee , R. C. Nichol , P. Nugent , D. Parkinson , R. R. R. Reis , M. Sako , H. Spinka , M. Sullivan

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

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

This overview article describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Aleksic , S. Allam , A. Amara , D. Bacon , E. Balbinot , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , S. Bridle , D. Brooks , R. J. Brunner , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , G. B. Caminha , D. Capozzi , J. Carlsen , A. Carnero-Rosell , M. Carollo , M. Carrasco-Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , L. Clerkin , T. Collett , C. Conselice , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Estrada , J. Etherington , A. E. Evrard , J. Fabbri , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Rosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , P. Guarnieri , G. Gutierrez , W. Hartley , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , S. Jouvel , R. Kessler , A. King , D. Kirk , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. Manera , C. Maraston , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , A. Merson , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , X. Morice-Atkinson , K. Naidoo , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , F. Ostrovski , A. Palmese , A. Papadopoulos , H. Peiris , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , S. L. Reed , A. Refregier , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , A. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sadeh , M. Sako , C. Sanchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , M. Soumagnac , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , D. Tucker , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , L. Whiteway , H. Wilcox , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7

The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is designed to measure the luminosity distance for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift, and to set observational constraints on the dark energy contribution to the total energy content…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Wendy L. Freedman , Christopher R. Burns , M. M. Phillips , Pamela Wyatt , S. E. Persson , Barry F. Madore , Carlos Contreras , Gaston Folatelli , E. Sergio Gonzalez , Mario Hamuy , Eric Hsiao , Daniel D. Kelson , Nidia Morrell , D. C. Murphy , Miguel Roth , Maximilian Stritzinger , Laura Sturch , Nick B. Suntzeff , P. Astier , C. Balland , Bruce Bassett , Luis Boldt , R. G. Carlberg , Alexander J. Conley , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , J. Guy , D. Hardin , D. Andrew Howell , Richard Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , R. Pain , Kathy Perrett , N. Regnault , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , Mark Sullivan , Michael Wood-Vasey

First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band light curves of supernovae in the redshift range z = 0.05 -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chen Zheng , Roger W. Romani , Masao Sako , John Marriner , Bruce Bassett , Andrew Becker , Changsu Choi , David Cinabro , Fritz DeJongh , Darren L. Depoy , Ben Dilday , Mamoru Doi , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , Craig J. Hogan , Jon Holtzman , Myungshin Im , Saurabh Jha , Richard Kessler , Kohki Konishi , Hubert Lampeitl , Jennifer L. Marshall , David McGinnis , Gajus Miknaitis , Robert C. Nichol , Jose Luis Prieto , Adam G. Riess , Michael W. Richmond , Donald P. Schneider , Mathew Smith , Naohiro Takanashi , Kouichi Tokita , Kurt van der Heyden , Naoki Yasuda , Roberto J. Assef , John Barentine , Ralf Bender , Roger D. Blandford , Malcolm Bremer , Howard Brewington , Chris A. Collins , Arlin Crotts , Jack Dembicky , Jason Eastman , Alastair Edge , Ed Elson , Michael E. Eyler , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Stephan Frank , Ariel Goobar , Michael Harvanek , Ulrich Hopp , Yutaka Ihara , Steven Kahn , William Ketzeback , Scott J. Kleinman , Wolfram Kollatschny , Jurek Krzesiński , Giorgos Leloudas , Daniel C. Long , John Lucey , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Russet J. McMillan , Christopher W. Morgan , Tomoki Morokuma , Atsuko Nitta , Linda Ostman , Kaike Pan , A. Kathy Romer , Gabrelle Saurage , Katie Schlesinger , Stephanie A. Snedden , Jesper Sollerman , Maximilian Stritzinger , Linda C. Watson , Shannon Watters , J. Craig Wheeler , Donald York

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

Cosmology with Superluminous Supernovae

We predict cosmological constraints for forthcoming surveys using Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) as standardisable candles. Due to their high peak luminosity, these events can be observed to high redshift (z~3), opening up new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Dario Scovacricchi , Robert C. Nichol , David Bacon , Mark Sullivan , Szymon Prajs

Unbiased Estimate of Dark Energy Density from Type Ia Supernova Data

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are currently the best probes of the dark energy in the universe. To constrain the nature of dark energy in a model-independent manner, we allow the density of dark energy, $\rho_X(z)$, to be an arbitrary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yun Wang , Geoffrey Lovelace

Photo-zSNthesis: Converting Type Ia Supernova Lightcurves to Redshift Estimates via Deep Learning

Upcoming photometric surveys will discover tens of thousands of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), vastly outpacing the capacity of our spectroscopic resources. In order to maximize the science return of these observations in the absence of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Helen Qu , Masao Sako

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

The Foundation Supernova Survey: Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Supernovae from a Single Telescope

Measurements of the dark energy equation-of-state parameter, $w$, have been limited by uncertainty in the selection effects and photometric calibration of $z<0.1$ Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The Foundation Supernova Survey is designed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. O. Jones , D. M. Scolnic , R. J. Foley , A. Rest , R. Kessler , P. M. Challis , K. C. Chambers , D. A. Coulter , K. G. Dettman , M. M. Foley , M. E. Huber , S. W. Jha , E. Johnson , C. D. Kilpatrick , R. P. Kirshner , J. Manuel , G. Narayan , Y. -C. Pan , A. G. Riess , A. S. B. Schultz , M. R. Siebert , E. Berger , R. Chornock , H. Flewelling , E. A. Magnier , S. J. Smartt , K. W. Smith , R. J. Wainscoat , C. Waters , M. Willman

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

The First Data Release from SweetSpot: 74 Supernovae in 36 Nights on WIYN+WHIRC

SweetSpot is a three-year National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) Survey program to observe Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the smooth Hubble flow with the WIYN High-resolution Infrared Camera (WHIRC) on the WIYN 3.5-m telescope. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Anja Weyant , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Richard Joyce , Lori Allen , Peter Garnavich , Saurabh W. Jha , Jessica R. Kroboth , Thomas Matheson , Kara A. Ponder

Cyber-infrastructure to Support Science and Data Management for the Dark Energy Survey

The Dark Energy Survey (DES; operations 2009-2015) will address the nature of dark energy using four independent and complementary techniques: (1) a galaxy cluster survey over 4000 deg2 in collaboration with the South Pole Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Ngeow , J. J. Mohr , T. Alam , W. A. Barkhouse , C. Beldica , D. Cai , G. Daues , R. Plante , J. Annis , H. Lin , D. Tucker , R. C. Smith