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Large time-domain sky surveys generate extensive multi-year catalogs of light curves in which scientifically valuable transients, such as supernovae (SNe), are vastly outnumbered by artifacts and routine star variability. While supervised…

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Union Through UNITY: Cosmology with 2,000 SNe Using a Unified Bayesian Framework

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) were instrumental in establishing the acceleration of the universe's expansion. By virtue of their combination of distance reach, precision, and prevalence, they continue to provide key cosmological constraints,…

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Quantitative Classification of Type I Supernovae Using Spectroscopic Features at Maximum Brightness

We present a set of new quantitative classification criteria for major subclasses of Type I Supernovae (SNe). We analyze peak spectra of 146 SNe Ia from the Berkeley Supernova Ia Program (BSNIP), 12 SNe Ib, 19 SNe Ic (including 5 SNe Ic-BL)…

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Type Ia Supernova Light Curve Inference: Hierarchical Models in the Optical and Near Infrared

We have constructed a comprehensive statistical model for Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) light curves spanning optical through near infrared (NIR) data. A hierarchical framework coherently models multiple random and uncertain effects, including…

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The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological Analysis and Systematic Uncertainties

We present the full Hubble diagram of photometrically-classified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the Dark Energy Survey supernova program (DES-SN). DES-SN discovered more than 20,000 SN candidates and obtained spectroscopic redshifts of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 M. Vincenzi , D. Brout , P. Armstrong , B. Popovic , G. Taylor , M. Acevedo , R. Camilleri , R. Chen , T. M. Davis , S. R. Hinton , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , J. Lee , C. Lidman , A. Möller , H. Qu , M. Sako , B. Sanchez , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , P. Wiseman , J. Asorey , B. A. Bassett , D. Carollo , A. Carr , R. J. Foley , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , O. Graur , E. Kovacs , K. Kuehn , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , B. Rose , B. E. Tucker , M. Toy , D. L. Tucker , F. Yuan , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , S. Lee , H. Lin , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Porredon , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck

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…

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Towards an understanding of Type Ia supernovae from a synthesis of theory and observations

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-27 W. Hillebrandt , M. Kromer , F. K. Röpke , A. J. Ruiter

Cosmological Constraints from Measurements of Type Ia Supernovae discovered during the first 1.5 years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Rest , D. Scolnic , R. J. Foley , M. E. Huber , R. Chornock , G. Narayan , J. L. Tonry , E. Berger , A. M. Soderberg , C. W. Stubbs , A. Riess , R. P. Kirshner , S. J. Smartt , E. Schlafly , S. Rodney , M. T. Botticella , D. Brout , P. Challis , I. Czekala , M. Drout , M. J. Hudson , R. Kotak , C. Leibler , R. Lunnan , G. H. Marion , M. McCrum , D. Milisavljevic , A. Pastorello , N. E. Sanders , K. Smith , E. Stafford , D. Thilker , S. Valenti , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Z. Zheng , W. S. Burgett , K. C. Chambers , L. Denneau , P. W. Draper , H. Flewelling , K. W. Hodapp , N. Kaiser , R. P. Kudritzki , E. A. Magnier , N. Metcalfe , P. A. Price , W. Sweeney , R. Wainscoat , C. Waters

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Modelling selection efficiency and observed core collapse supernova contamination

The analysis of current and future cosmological surveys of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high-redshift depends on the accurate photometric classification of the SN events detected. Generating realistic simulations of photometric SN surveys…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 M. Vincenzi , M. Sullivan , O. Graur , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , C. P. Gutiérrez , S. R. Hinton , R. Hounsell , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , E. Kovacs , S. Kuhlmann , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , E. Swann , P. Wiseman , J. Asorey , G. F. Lewis , R. Sharp , B. E. Tucker , M. Aguena , S. Allam , S. Avila , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , A. Choi , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , M. A. G. Maia , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , R. D. Wilkinson

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

CfA4: Light Curves for 94 Type Ia Supernovae

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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Malcolm Hicken , Peter Challis , Robert P. Kirshner , Armin Rest , Claire E. Cramer , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Gaspar Bakos , Perry Berlind , Warren R. Brown , Nelson Caldwell , Mike Calkins , Thayne Currie , Kathy de Kleer , Gil Esquerdo , Mark Everett , Emilio Falco , Jose Fernandez , Andrew S. Friedman , Ted Groner , Joel Hartman , Matthew J. Holman , Robert Hutchins , Sonia Keys , David Kipping , Dave Latham , George H. Marion , Gautham Narayan , Michael Pahre , Andras Pal , Wayne Peters , Gopakumar Perumpilly , Ben Ripman , Brigitta Sipocz , Andrew Szentgyorgyi , Sumin Tang , Manuel A. P. Torres , Amali Vaz , Scott Wolk , Andreas Zezas

Cosmology with Photometrically-Classified Type Ia Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

We present the cosmological analysis of 752 photometrically-classified Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained from the full Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova (SN) Survey, supplemented with host-galaxy spectroscopy from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-05 Heather Campbell , Chris B. D'Andrea , Robert C. Nichol , Masao Sako , Mathew Smith , Hubert Lampeitl , Matthew D. Olmstead , Bruce Bassett , Rahul Biswas , Peter Brown , David Cinabro , Kyle S. Dawson , Ben Dilday , Ryan J. Foley , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter Garnavich , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh W. Jha , Steve Kuhlmann , Martin Kunz , John Marriner , Ramon Miquel , Michael Richmond , Adam Riess , Donald P. Schneider , Jesper Sollerman , Matt Taylor , Gong-Bo Zhao

HOLISMOKES XXI: Detecting strongly lensed type Ia supernovae from time series of multi-band LSST-like imaging data -- Part II

Strong gravitationally lensed supernovae (LSNe) are rare but extremely valuable probes of cosmology and astrophysics. Prompt identification within the alert streams of time-domain surveys such as the Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-08 Satadru Bag , Raoul Canameras , Sherry H. Suyu , Stefan Schuldt , Stefan Taubenberger , Irham Taufik Andika , Alejandra Melo , Ming Kei Chan

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

First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: Simulations to Correct Supernova Distance Biases

We describe catalog-level simulations of Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) light curves in the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN), and in low-redshift samples from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and the Carnegie Supernova Project…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-13 R. Kessler , D. Brout , C. B. D'Andrea , T. M. Davis , S. R. Hinton , A. G. Kim , J. Lasker , C. Lidman , E. Macaulay , A. Möller , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , B. Zhang , P. Andersen , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , S. Crawford , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , K. Glazebrook , J. K. Hoormann , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , M. March , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , Y. -C. Pan , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , R. C. Thomas , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , 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. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , B. Nord , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , A. R. Walker , Y. Zhang

Cosmology with Photometric Surveys of Type Ia Supernovae

We discuss the extent to which photometric measurements alone can be used to identify Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) and to determine redshift and other parameters of interest for cosmological studies. We fit the light curve data of the type…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray , Xuelei Chen

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…

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Supercal: Cross-Calibration of Multiple Photometric Systems to Improve Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

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…

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A Probabilistic Autoencoder for Type Ia Supernovae Spectral Time Series

We construct a physically-parameterized probabilistic autoencoder (PAE) to learn the intrinsic diversity of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from a sparse set of spectral time series. The PAE is a two-stage generative model, composed of an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 George Stein , Uros Seljak , Vanessa Bohm , G. Aldering , P. Antilogus , C. Aragon , S. Bailey , C. Baltay , S. Bongard , K. Boone , C. Buton , Y. Copin , S. Dixon , D. Fouchez , E. Gangler , R. Gupta , B. Hayden , W. Hillebrandt , M. Karmen , A. G. Kim , M. Kowalski , D. Kusters , P. F. Leget , F. Mondon , J. Nordin , R. Pain , E. Pecontal , R. Pereira , S. Perlmutter , K. A. Ponder , D. Rabinowitz , M. Rigault , D. Rubin , K. Runge , C. Saunders , G. Smadja , N. Suzuki , C. Tao , R. C. Thomas , M. Vincenzi

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…

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