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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

Strongly gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe) are promising probes for providing absolute distance measurements using gravitational-lens time delays. Spatially unresolved LSNe offer an opportunity to enhance the sample size for…

Current cosmological analyses which use Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations combine SN samples to expand the redshift range beyond that of a single sample and increase the overall sample size. The inhomogeneous photometric calibration…

We present multi-band optical photometry of 94 spectroscopically-confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) in the redshift range 0.0055 to 0.073, obtained between 2006 and 2011. There are a total of 5522 light curve points. We show that our…

We present multi-band photometry of 185 type-Ia supernovae (SN Ia), with over 11500 observations. These were acquired between 2001 and 2008 at the F. L. Whipple Observatory of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Malcolm Hicken , Peter Challis , Saurabh Jha , Robert P. Kirshner , Tom Matheson , Maryam Modjaz , Armin Rest , W. Michael Wood-Vasey

We present griz light curves of 146 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia Supernovae ($0.03 < z <0.65$) discovered during the first 1.5 years of the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. The Pan-STARRS1 natural photometric system is determined by a…

In this work, we show that when supernova Ia (SN Ia) data sets are used to put constraints on the free parameters of inhomogeneous models, certain extra information regarding the light-curve fitter used in the supernovae Ia luminosity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-15 Gabriel R. Bengochea , Maria E. De Rossi

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

Type Ia supernovae (SNae Ia), standardisable candles that allow tracing the expansion history of the Universe, are instrumental in constraining cosmological parameters, particularly dark energy. State-of-the-art likelihood-based analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-14 Konstantin Karchev , Roberto Trotta , Christoph Weniger

We analyze the mean rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) spectrum of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) and its dispersion using high signal-to-noise Keck-I/LRIS-B spectroscopy for a sample of 36 events at intermediate redshift (z=0.5) discovered by the…

Type Ia supernovae have light curves that have widths and magnitudes that can be used for testing cosmologies and they provide one of the few direct measurements of time dilation. It is shown that the standard analysis that calibrates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 David F. Crawford

The unknown cause of the correlation between Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) Hubble residuals and their host-galaxy masses (the "mass step") may bias cosmological parameter measurements. To better understand the mass step, we develop a SALT3…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 D. O. Jones , W. D. Kenworthy , M. Dai , R. J. Foley , R. Kessler , J. D. R. Pierel , M. R. Siebert

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are essential tools for addressing key cosmic questions, including the Hubble tension and the nature of dark energy. Modern surveys are predominantly photometry-based, making the construction of a clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Moonzarin Reza , Lifan Wang , Lei Hu

We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium Deep Survey. We detail improvements to the PS1 SN photometry,…

To use type Ia supernovae as standard candles for cosmology we need accurate broadband magnitudes. In practice the observed magnitude may differ from the ideal magnitude-redshift relationship either through intrinsic inhomogeneities in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tamara M. Davis , Brian P. Schmidt , Alex G. Kim

To determine if the SuperNova Empirical Model (SNEMO) can improve Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) standardization of several currently available photometric data sets, we perform an initial test, comparing results with the much-used SALT2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-19 B. M. Rose , S. Dixon , D. Rubin , R. Hounsell , C. Saunders , S. Deustua , A. Fruchter , L. Galbany , S. Perlmutter , M. Sako

By using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) first year type Ia supernova (SN Ia) compilation, we compare two different approaches (traditional \chi^2 and complete likelihood) to determine parameter constraints when the magnitude dispersion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. L. Lago , M. O. Calvão , S. E. Jorás , R. R. R. Reis , I. Waga , R. Giostri

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

Photometric classification of Type Ia supernovae is essential for modern time-domain surveys, where spectroscopic confirmation is not always feasible for the full transient sample. In this work, we investigate a compact and physically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Anurag Garg

A large fraction of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations over the next decade will be in the near-infrared (NIR), at wavelengths beyond the reach of the current standard light-curve model for SN Ia cosmology, SALT3 ($\sim 2800$--8700$A$…