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Due to the effects of gravitational lensing, the magnification distribution of high redshift supenovae can be a powerful discriminator between smooth dark matter and dark matter consisting of compact objects. We use high resolution N-body…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Uros Seljak , Daniel E. Holz

We use a sample of 1338 spectroscopically confirmed and photometrically classified Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia), sourced from the CSP, CfA, SDSS-II, and SNLS supernova samples, to examine the relationships between SNe Ia and the galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Syed A. Uddin , Jeremy Mould , Chris Lidman , Vanina Ruhlmann-Kleider , Bonnie R. Zhang

Weak lensing can be observed through a number of effects on the images of distant galaxies; their shapes are sheared, their sizes and fluxes (magnitudes) are magnified and their positions on the sky are modified by the lensing field. Galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 Justin Alsing , Donnacha Kirk , Alan Heavens , Andrew Jaffe

We present improved photometric measurements for the host galaxies of 206 spectroscopically confirmed type Ia supernovae discovered by the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN) and used in the first DES-SN cosmological analysis.…

Observations of high-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe~Ia) are used to study the cosmic transparency at optical wavelengths. Assuming a flat $\Lambda$CDM cosmological model based on BAO and CMB results, redshift dependent deviations of SN~Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Ariel Goobar , Suhail Dhawan , Daniel Scolnic

We present the discovery of SN 2025wny (ZTF25abnjznp/GOTO25gtq) and spectroscopic classification of this event as the first gravitationally lensed Type I superluminous supernovae (SLSN-I). Deep ground-based follow-up observations resolves…

Context. Strong lenses are a biased subset of the general population of galaxies. Aims. The goal of this work is to quantify how lens galaxies and lensed sources differ from their parent distribution, namely the strong lensing bias.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-29 Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Shun-Sheng Li , Giulia Despali , Raphael Gavazzi , Anowar J. Shajib , Edward N. Taylor

The presence of mass inhomogeneities along the line of sight of propagation of light fromdistant objects can induce deflection in the flight path of the photon. This phenomenon is called as gravitational lensing. Lensing can have both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-28 Ayan Mitra

This is the second paper of a series in which we present new measurements of the observed rates of supernovae (SNe) in the local Universe, determined from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS). In this paper, a complete SN sample is…

The rate evolution of subluminous Type Ia Supernovae is presented using data from the Supernova Legacy Survey. This sub-sample represents the faint and rapidly-declining light-curves of the observed supernova Ia (SN Ia) population here…

We explore the dependence of weak lensing phenomena on the background cosmology. We first generalise the relation between $P_\psi(\omega)$, the angular power spectrum of the distortion, and the power spectrum of density fluctuations to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nick Kaiser

Basic considerations of lens detection and identification indicate that a wide field survey of the types planned for weak lensing and Type Ia SNe with SNAP are close to optimal for the optical detection of strong lenses. Such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Phil Marshall , Roger Blandford , Masao Sako

We make use of publicly available results from N-body Millennium Simulation to create mock samples of lensed supernovae type Ia and core-collapse. Simulating galaxy-galaxy lensing we derive the rates of lensed supernovae and find than at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska , Lukasz Wyrzykowski , Michal Jaroszynski

In this paper, we present a scheme to investigate the opacity of the Universe in a cosmological-model-independent way, with the combination of current and future measurements of type Ia supernova sample and galactic-scale strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yu-Bo Ma , Shuo Cao , Jia Zhang , Jingzhao Qi , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Shuaibo Geng

Dark matter may consist of weakly interacting elementary particles or of macroscopic compact objects. We show that the statistics of the gravitational lensing of high redshift supernovae strongly discriminate between these two classes of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. Benton Metcalf , Joseph Silk

We study the feasibility of detecting weak lensing spatial correlations between Supernova (SN) Type Ia magnitudes with present (Dark Energy Survey, DES) and future (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, LSST) surveys. We investigate the angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 D. Scovacricchi , R. C. Nichol , E. Macaulay , D. Bacon

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 in distant galaxies that are gravitationally lensed by foreground galaxy clusters make excellent cosmological candles for measuring quantities like the density of the Universe in its various components and the Hubble constant.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Tarun Deep Saini , Somak Raychaudhury , Yuri A. Shchekinov

We discuss the amplification dispersion in the observed luminosity of standard candles, like supernovae (SNe) of type Ia, induced by gravitational lensing in a Universe with dark energy (quintessence). We derive the main features of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Sereno , E. Piedipalumbo , M. V. Sazhin