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Constraining Dark Energy with the Dark Energy Survey: Theoretical Challenges

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) will use a new imaging camera on the Blanco 4-m telescope at CTIO to image 5000 square degrees of sky in the South Galactic Cap in four optical bands, and to carry out repeat imaging over a smaller area to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Annis , Sarah Bridle , Francisco J. Castander , August E. Evrard , Pablo Fosalba , Joshua A. Frieman , Enrique Gaztanaga , Bhuvnesh Jain , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Ofer Lahav , Huan Lin , Joseph Mohr , Albert Stebbins , Terence P. Walker , Risa H. Wechsler , David H. Weinberg , Jochen Weller

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light Curve Data Release

We present griz light curves of 251 Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first 3 years of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program's (DES-SN) spectroscopically classified sample. The photometric pipeline described in this paper produces the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-04 D. Brout , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , R. Kessler , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , R. C. Wolf , S. Allam , B. A. Bassett , P. Brown , F. J. Castander , M. Childress , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , K. Herner , E. Kasai , M. March , E. Morganson , P. Nugent , Y. -C. Pan , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , W. Wester , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , 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. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. Miquel , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang

Identification of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift 1.3 and Beyond with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on HST

We present discoveries of SNe Ia at z > 1 and the photometric diagnostic used to discriminate them from other types of SNe detected during the GOODS Hubble Space Telescope Treasury program with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Adam G. Riess , Louis-Gregory Strolger , John Tonry , Zlatan Tsvetanov , Stefano Casertano , Henry C. Ferguson , Bahram Mobasher , Peter Challis , Nino Panagia , Alexei V. Filippenko , Weidong Li , Ryan Chornock , Robert P. Kirshner , Bruno Leibundgut , Mark Dickinson , Anton Koekemoer , Norman A. Grogin , Mauro Giavalisco

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 Next Generation of Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

While Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are one of the most mature cosmological probes, the next era promises to be extremely exciting in the number of different ways SNe Ia are used to measure various cosmological parameters. Here we review the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Dan Scolnic , Saul Perlmutter , Greg Aldering , Dillon Brout , Tamara Davis , Alex Filippenko , Ryan Foley , Renee Hlozek , Rebekah Hounsell , Saurabh Jha , David Jones , Pat Kelly , Rick Kessler , Alex Kim , David Rubin , Adam Riess , Steven Rodney , Justin Roberts-Pierel , Christopher Stubbs , Yun Wang , Jacobo Asorey , Arturo Avelino , Chetan Bavdhankar , Peter J. Brown , Anthony Challinor , Christophe Balland , Asantha Cooray , Suhail Dhawan , Georgios Dimitriadis , Cora Dvorkin , Julien Guy , Will Handley , Ryan E. Keeley , Jean-Paul Kneib , Benjamin LHuillier , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Kaisey Mandel , James Mertens , Mickael Rigault , Pavel Motloch , Suvodip Mukherjee , Gautham Narayan , Andrei Nomerotski , Lyman Page , Levon Pogosian , Giuseppe Puglisi , Marco Raveri , Nicolas Regnault , Armin Rest , Cesar Rojas-Bravo , Masao Sako , Feng Shi , Srivatsan Sridhar , Aritoki Suzuki , Yu-Dai Tsai , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Yannick Copin , Gong-Bo Zhao , Ningfeng Zhu

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

Destiny: A Candidate Architecture for the Joint Dark Energy Mission

Destiny is a simple, direct, low cost mission to determine the properties of dark energy by obtaining a cosmologically deep supernova (SN) type Ia Hubble diagram. Operated at L2, its science instrument is a 1.65m space telescope, featuring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dominic J. Benford , Tod R. Lauer

Forecast of Cosmological Constraints with Type Ia Supernovae from the Chinese Space Station Telescope

The 2-m aperture Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST), which observes at wavelengths ranging from 255 to 1000 nm, is expected to start science operations in 2024. An ultra-deep field observation program covering approximately 10 square…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-09 Shi-Yu Li , Yun-Long Li , Tianmeng Zhang , Jozsef Vinko , Eniko Regos , Xiaofeng Wang , Gaobo Xi , Hu Zhan

Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy

I review the use of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) for cosmological distance determinations. Low-redshift SNe Ia (z <~ 0.1) demonstrate that the Hubble expansion is linear, that H_0 = 65 +/- 2 (statistical) km/s/Mpc, and that the properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei V. Filippenko

Supernovae and the Nature of the Dark Energy

The use of Type Ia supernovae as calibrated standard candles is one of the most powerful tools to study the expansion history of the universe and thereby its energy components. While the analysis of some ~50 supernovae at redshifts around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Goliath , R. Amanullah , P. Astier , A. Goobar , R. Pain

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: A Reanalysis Of Cosmology Results And Evidence For Evolving Dark Energy With An Updated Type Ia Supernova Calibration

We present improved cosmological constraints from a re-analysis of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) 5-year sample of Type Ia supernovae (DES-SN5YR). This re-analysis includes an improved photometric cross-calibration, recent white dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-06 B. Popovic , P. Shah , W. D. Kenworthy , R. Kessler , T. M. Davis , A. Goobar , D. Scolnic , M. Vincenzi , P. Wiseman , R. Chen , E. Charleton , M. Acevedo , P. Armstrong , B. M. Boyd , D. Brout , R. Camilleri , J. Frieman , L. Galbany , M. Grayling , L. Kelsey , B. Rose , B. Sánchez , J. Lee , A. Möller , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , N. Shiamtanis , A. Alarcon , S. S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , S. Avila , D. Bacon , J. Blazek , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , R. Cawthon , L. N. da Costa , M. E. da Silva Pereira , H. T. Diehl , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , S. Everett , C. Frohmaier , J. García-Bellido , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , N. Jeffrey , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , C. Lidman , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Muir , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , M. Paterno , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , J. Prat , R. C. Nichol , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , C. To , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck

The ANDICAM-SOFI Near-infrared and Optical type Ia Supernova (ASNOS) sample: Description and data release

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide the most robust means of measuring extragalactic distances. While most of the effort has focused on increasing the number of SNe Ia observed in the optical, near-infrared (NIR) observations remain scarce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Kim Phan , Lluís Galbany , Tomás E. Müller-Bravo , Subhash Bose , Christopher R. Burns , Maximilian D. Stritzinger , Camilla T. G. Sørensen , Chris Ashall , Francisco J. Castander , Cristina Jiménez Palau , Joel Johansson , Joseph P. Anderson , Ken. C. Chambers , Mariusz Gromadzki , Priscila J. Pessi , Ting-Wan Chen

Designing an Optimal LSST Deep Drilling Program for Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time is forecast to collect a large sample of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that could be instrumental in unveiling the nature of Dark Energy. The feat, however, requires measuring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-12 Philippe Gris , Nicolas Regnault , Humna Awan , Isobel Hook , Saurabh W. Jha , Michelle Lochner , Bruno Sanchez , Dan Scolnic , Mark Sullivan , Peter Yoachim , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Studying Type II supernovae as cosmological standard candles using the Dark Energy Survey

Despite vast improvements in the measurement of the cosmological parameters, the nature of dark energy and an accurate value of the Hubble constant (H$_0$) in the Hubble-Lema\^itre law remain unknown. To break the current impasse, it is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 T. de Jaeger , L. Galbany , S. González-Gaitán , R. Kessler , A. V. Filippenko , F. Förster , M. Hamuy , P. J. Brown , T. M. Davis , C. P. Gutiérrez , C. Inserra , G F. Lewis , A. Möller , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , D. Brout , D. Carollo , R. J. Foley , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , E. Macaulay , B. Nichol , M. Sako , N. E. Sommer , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , J. Weller , R. Wilkinson

Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Two Years

We present the results of spectroscopic observations of targets discovered during the first two years of the ESSENCE project. The goal of ESSENCE is to use a sample of ~200 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at moderate redshifts (0.2 < z < 0.8)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Matheson , S. Blondin , R. J. Foley , R. Chornock , A. V. Filippenko , B. Leibundgut , R. C. Smith , J. Sollerman , J. Spyromilio , R. P. Kirshner , A. Clocchiatti , C. Aguilera , B. Barris , A. C. Becker , P. Challis , R. Covarrubias , P. Garnavich , M. Hicken , S. Jha , K. Krisciunas , W. Li , A. Miceli , G. Miknaitis , J. L. Prieto , A. Rest , A. G. Riess , M. E. Salvo , B. P. Schmidt , C. W. Stubbs , N. B. Suntzeff , J. L. Tonry

Testing $\Lambda$CDM versus dynamical dark energy in one year: A DESI spectroscopic follow-up program for Rubin supernovae

Combined cosmological probes currently indicate that best-fit values in the $w_0-w_a$ parametrization of dynamical dark energy deviate from $\Lambda$CDM by $\sim3\sigma$. In this work, we present a supernova survey capable of measuring…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Jannik Truong , Greg Aldering , Saul Perlmutter , David Rubin , David Schlegel

Type Ia Supernova Distances at z > 1.5 from the Hubble Space Telescope Multi-Cycle Treasury Programs: The Early Expansion Rate

We present an analysis of 15 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at redshift z > 1 (9 at 1.5 < z < 2.3) recently discovered in the CANDELS and CLASH Multi-Cycle Treasury programs using WFC3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. We combine these SNe Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Adam G. Riess , Steven A. Rodney , Daniel M. Scolnic , Daniel L. Shafer , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Henry C. Ferguson , Marc Postman , Or Graur , Dan Maoz , Saurabh W. Jha , Bahram Mobasher , Stefano Casertano , Brian Hayden , Alberto Molino , Jens Hjorth , Peter M. Garnavich , David O. Jones , Robert P. Kirshner , Anton M. Koekemoer , Norman A. Grogin , Gabriel Brammer , Shoubaneh Hemmati , Mark Dickinson , Peter M. Challis , Schuyler Wolff , Kelsey I. Clubb , Alexei V. Filippenko , Hooshang Nayyeri , U Vivian , David C. Koo , Sandra M. Faber , Dale Kocevski , Larry Bradley , Dan Coe

Supernovae in the Subaru Deep Field: the rate and delay-time distribution of type Ia supernovae out to redshift 2

The type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate, when compared to the cosmic star formation history (SFH), can be used to derive the delay-time distribution (DTD) of SNe Ia, which can distinguish among progenitor models. We present the results of a SN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Or Graur , Dovi Poznanski , Dan Maoz , Naoki Yasuda , Tomonori Totani , Masataka Fukugita , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Jeffrey M. Silverman , Avishay Gal-Yam , Assaf Horesh , Buell T. Jannuzi

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

A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator for Type Ia Supernovae

The use of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological standard candles is fundamental in modern observational cosmology. In this letter, we derive a simple empirical photometric redshift estimator for SNe Ia using a training set of SNe Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Yun Wang