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Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can be calibrated to be good standard candles at cosmological distances. We propose a supernova pencil beam survey that could yield between dozens to hundreds of SNe Ia in redshift bins of 0.1 up to $z=1.5$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yun Wang

We study the compression of information present in the correlated perturbations to the luminosity distance in the low-redshift ($z<0.1$) supernovae Ia due to peculiar velocities of these supernovae. We demonstrate that the na\"{i}ve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-08 Vid Iršič , Anže Slosar

We present a data-driven method based on long short-term memory (LSTM) neural networks to analyze spectral time series of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The dataset includes 3091 spectra from 361 individual SNe Ia. The method allows for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-09 Lei Hu , Xingzhuo Chen , Lifan Wang

We present a new empirical fitting method for the optical light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia). We find that a variant broken-power-law function provides a good fit, with the simple assumption that the optical emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 WeiKang Zheng , Alexei V. Filippenko

We combine the CfA3 supernova Type Ia (SN Ia) sample with samples from the literature to calculate improved constraints on the dark energy equation of state parameter, w. The CfA3 sample is added to the Union set of Kowalski et al. (2008)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Malcolm Hicken , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Stephane Blondin , Peter Challis , Saurabh Jha , Patrick L. Kelly , Armin Rest , Robert P. Kirshner

In order to obtain robust cosmological constraints from Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data, we have applied Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to SN Ia lightcurve fitting. We develop a method for sampling the resultant probability density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-19 Mi Dai , Yun Wang

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are a key probe in modern cosmology, as they can be used to measure luminosity distances at gigaparsec scales. Models of their light-curves are used to project heterogeneous observed data onto a common basis for…

Type Ia Supernovae are in many aspects still enigmatic objects. Recent years have witnessed a bonanza of supernova observations. The increased samples from dedicated searches have allowed the statistical investigation of Type Ia Supernovae…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bruno Leibundgut

We present photometric properties and distance measurements of 252 high redshift Type Ia supernovae (0.15 < z < 1.1) discovered during the first three years of the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). These events were detected and their…

Weak lensing causes spatially coherent fluctuations in flux of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). This lensing magnification allows for weak lensing measurement independent of cosmic shear. It is free of shape measurement errors associated with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Pengjie Zhang

We present ORACLE, the first hierarchical deep-learning model for real-time, context-aware classification of transient and variable astrophysical phenomena. ORACLE is a recurrent neural network with Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), and has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Ved G. Shah , Alex Gagliano , Konstantin Malanchev , Gautham Narayan , Alex I. Malz , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

We examine the basic physics of type Ia supernova (SNe Ia) light curves with a view toward interpreting the relations between peak luminosity, peak width, and late-time slope in terms of the properties of the underlying explosion models. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip A. Pinto , Ronald G. Eastman

Large photometric surveys of transient phenomena, such as Pan-STARRS and LSST, will locate thousands to millions of type Ia supernova candidates per year, a rate prohibitive for acquiring spectroscopy to determine each candidate's type and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 D. M. Scolnic , A. G. Riess , M. E. Huber , A. Rest , C. Stubbs , J. L. Tonry

Traditional cosmological inference using Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa) have used stretch- and color-corrected fits of SN Ia light curves and assumed a resulting fiducial mean and symmetric intrinsic dispersion for the resulting relative…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-17 Kara A. Ponder , W. Michael Wood-Vasey , Andrew R. Zentner

We probe the systematic uncertainties from 113 Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) in the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) sample along with 197 SN Ia from a combination of low-redshift surveys. The companion paper by Rest et al. (2013) describes the photometric…

This study presents a bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network for classifying transient astronomical object light curves from the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC) dataset. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Guilherme Grancho D. Fernandes , Marco A. Barroca , Mateus dos Santos , Rafael S. Oliveira

While conventional Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) cosmology analyses rely primarily on rest-frame optical light curves to determine distances, SNe Ia are excellent standard candles in near-infrared (NIR) light, which is significantly less…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Kaisey S. Mandel , Stephen Thorp , Gautham Narayan , Andrew S. Friedman , Arturo Avelino

Weak lensing of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is a systematic uncertainty in the use of SNe Ia as standard candles, as well as an independent cosmological probe, if the corresponding magnification distribution can be extracted from data. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Zhongxu Zhai , Yun Wang

Solar prominences are dynamic structures suspended within the solar corona and are manifestation of solar activity. Their evolution includes eruptions linked to coronal mass ejections, making their detection critical for space weather…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Harry Birch , Stéphane Régnier , Richard Morton