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Cosmology with Superluminous Supernovae

We predict cosmological constraints for forthcoming surveys using Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe) as standardisable candles. Due to their high peak luminosity, these events can be observed to high redshift (z~3), opening up new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Dario Scovacricchi , Robert C. Nichol , David Bacon , Mark Sullivan , Szymon Prajs

Photometric classification of type Ia supernovae in the SuperNova Legacy Survey with supervised learning

In the era of large astronomical surveys, photometric classification of supernovae (SNe) has become an important research field due to limited spectroscopic resources for candidate follow-up and classification. In this work, we present a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-14 A. Möller , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , C. Leloup , J. Neveu , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , J. Rich , R. Carlberg , C. Lidman , C. Pritchet

Photometric Estimates of Redshifts and Distance Moduli for Type Ia Supernovae

Large planned photometric surveys will discover hundreds of thousands of supernovae (SNe), outstripping the resources available for spectroscopic follow-up and necessitating the development of purely photometric methods to exploit these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Richard Kessler , David Cinabro , Bruce Bassett , Benjamin Dilday , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , Saurabh Jha , John Marriner , Robert C. Nichol , Masao Sako , Mathew Smith , Joseph P. Bernstein , Dmitry Bizyaev , Ariel Goobar , Stephen Kuhlmann , Donald P. Schneider , Maximilian Stritzinger

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

SNIa photometric studies in SNLS

The discovery of accelerated expansion using supernova surveys has been one of the most surprising discoveries in cosmology in the past ten years. Present and future surveys, among which SNLS, JDEM or LSST, are based on samples of a few…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 N. Palanque-Delabrouille

Detection and classification of supernovae beyond z~2 redshift with the James Webb Space Telescope

Future time-domain surveys for transient events in the near- and mid-infrared bands will significantly extend our understanding about the physics of the early Universe. In this paper we study the implications of a deep (~27 mag), long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Eniko Regos , Jozsef Vinko

Evaluating Cosmological Biases using Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernova Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program

Cosmological analyses with Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) have traditionally been reliant on spectroscopy for both classifying the type of supernova and obtaining reliable redshifts to measure the distance-redshift relation. While obtaining a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-25 R. Chen , D. Scolnic , M. Vincenzi , E. S. Rykoff , J. Myles , R. Kessler , B. Popovic , M. Sako , M. Smith , P. Armstrong , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , L. Galbany , J. Lee , C. Lidman , A. Möller , B. O. Sánchez , M. Sullivan , H. Qu , P. Wiseman , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , J. Annis , D. Bacon , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , A. Choi , C. Conselice , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , M. Gatti , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. Huterer , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , M. Lima , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , S. Samuroff , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , C. To , D. L. Tucker , V. Vikram , N. Weaverdyck , J. Weller

Spectra and Light Curves of Six Type Ia Supernovae at 0.511 < z < 1.12 and the Union2 Compilation

We report on work to increase the number of well-measured Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at high redshifts. Light curves, including high signal-to-noise HST data, and spectra of six SNe Ia that were discovered during 2001 are presented.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-15 R. Amanullah , C. Lidman , D. Rubin , G. Aldering , P. Astier , K. Barbary , M. S. Burns , A. Conley , K. S. Dawson , S. E. Deustua , M. Doi , S. Fabbro , L. Faccioli , H. K. Fakhouri , G. Folatelli , A. S. Fruchter , H. Furusawa , G. Garavini , G. Goldhaber , A. Goobar , D. E. Groom , I. Hook , D. A. Howell , N. Kashikawa , A. G. Kim , R. A. Knop , M. Kowalski , E. Linder , J. Meyers , T. Morokuma , S. Nobili , J. Nordin , P. E. Nugent , L. Ostman , R. Pain , N. Panagia , S. Perlmutter , J. Raux , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , A. L. Spadafora , M. Strovink , N. Suzuki , L. Wang , W. M. Wood-Vasey , N. Yasuda

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Survey Overview and Supernova Spectroscopy

We present spectroscopy from the first three seasons of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). We describe the supernova spectroscopic program in full: strategy, observations, data reduction, and classification. We have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 C. B. D'Andrea , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , R. C. Nichol , R. C. Thomas , A. G. Kim , A. Möller , M. Sako , F. J. Castander , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , S. González-Gaitán , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , C. Lidman , D. Scolnic , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , R. R. Gupta , S. R. Hinton , R. Kessler , J. Lasker , E. Macaulay , R. C. Wolf , B. Zhang , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , B. A. Bassett , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , R. Casas , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , S. Crawford , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , M. L. Graham , J. K. Hoormann , K. Kuehn , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , Y. -C. Pan , M. Pursiainen , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , P. Wiseman , W. Zheng , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , W. Wester

Cosmological Prediction of the CSST Ultra Deep Field Type Ia Supernova Photometric Survey

Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) as a standard candle is an ideal tool to measure cosmic distance and expansion history of the Universe. Here we investigate the SN Ia photometric measurement in the China Space Station Telescope Ultra Deep Field…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-24 Minglin Wang , Yan Gong , Furen Deng , Haitao Miao , Xuelei Chen , Hu Zhan

Spectroscopy of Type Ia Supernovae by the Carnegie Supernova Project

This is the first release of optical spectroscopic data of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) by the Carnegie Supernova Project including 604 previously unpublished spectra of 93 SNe Ia. The observations cover a range of phases from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-05 Gastón Folatelli , Nidia Morrell , Mark M. Phillips , Eric Hsiao , Abdo Campillay , Carlos Contreras , Sergio Castellón , Mario Hamuy , Wojtek Krzeminski , Miguel Roth , Maximilian Stritzinger , Christopher R. Burns , Wendy L. Freedman , Barry F. Madore , David Murphy , S. E. Persson , José L. Prieto , Nicholas B. Suntzeff , Kevin Krisciunas , Joseph P. Anderson , Francisco Förster , José Maza , Giuliano Pignata , P. Andrea Rojas , Luis Boldt , Francisco Salgado , Pamela Wyatt , Felipe Olivares E. , Avishay Gal-Yam , Masao Sako

New Constraints on $\Omega_M$, $\Omega_\Lambda$, and w from an Independent Set of Eleven High-Redshift Supernovae Observed with HST

We report measurements of $\Omega_M$, $\Omega_\Lambda$, and w from eleven supernovae at z=0.36-0.86 with high-quality lightcurves measured using WFPC-2 on the HST. This is an independent set of high-redshift supernovae that confirms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. A. Knop , G. Aldering , R. Amanullah , P. Astier , G. Blanc , M. S. Burns , A. Conley , S. E. Deustua , M. Doi , R. Ellis , S. Fabbro , G. Folatelli , A. S. Fruchter , G. Garavini , S. Garmond , K. Garton , R. Gibbons , G. Goldhaber , A. Goobar , D. E. Groom , D. Hardin , I. Hook , D. A. Howell , A. G. Kim , B. C. Lee , C. Lidman , J. Mendez , S. Nobili , P. E. Nugent , R. Pain , N. Panagia , C. R. Pennypacker , S. Perlmutter , R. Quimby , J. Raux , N. Regnault , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , G. Sainton , B. Schaefer , K. Schahmaneche , E. Smith , A. L. Spadafora , V. Stanishev , M. Sullivan , N. A. Walton , L. Wang , W. M. Wood-Vasey , N. Yasuda

Distance Measurements from Supernovae and Dark Energy Constraints

Constraints on dark energy from current observational data are sensitive to how distances are measured from Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data. We find that flux-averaging of SNe Ia can be used to test the presence of unknown systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-29 Yun Wang

The Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program: Cosmological biases from supernova photometric classification

Cosmological analyses of samples of photometrically-identified Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) depend on understanding the effects of 'contamination' from core-collapse and peculiar SN Ia events. We employ a rigorous analysis on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 M. Vincenzi , M. Sullivan , A. Möller , P. Armstrong , B. A. Bassett , D. Brout , D. Carollo , A. Carr , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , O. Graur , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , E. Kovacs , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , B. Popovic , M. Sako , D. Scolnic , M. Smith , G. Taylor , B. E. Tucker , P. Wiseman , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , J. Asorey , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , K. Reil , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , C. To , T. N. Varga , J. Weller , R. D. Wilkinson

The HST See Change Program: I. Survey Design, Pipeline, and Supernova Discoveries

The See Change survey was designed to make $z>1$ cosmological measurements by efficiently discovering high-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and improving cluster mass measurements through weak lensing. This survey observed twelve galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Brian Hayden , David Rubin , Kyle Boone , Greg Aldering , Jakob Nordin , Mark Brodwin , Susana Deustua , Sam Dixon , Parker Fagrelius , Andy Fruchter , Peter Eisenhardt , Anthony Gonzalez , Ravi Gupta , Isobel Hook , Chris Lidman , Kyle Luther , Adam Muzzin , Zachary Raha , Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente , Clare Saunders , Caroline Sofiatti , Adam Stanford , Nao Suzuki , Tracy Webb , Steven C. Williams , Gillian Wilson , Mike Yen , Rahman Amanullah , Kyle Barbary , Hans Bohringer , Greta Chappell , Carlos Cunha , Miles Currie , Rene Fassbender , Michael Gladders , Ariel Goobar , Hendrik Hildenrandt , Henk Hoekstra , Xiaosheng Huang , Dragan Huterer , M. James Jee , Alex Kim , Marek Kowalski , Eric Linder , Joshua E. Meyers , Reynald Pain , Saul Perlmutter , Johan Richard , Piero Rosati , Eduardo Rozo , Eli Rykoff , Joana Santos , Anthony Spadafora , Daniel Stern , Risa Wechsler , The Supernova Cosmology Project

Using Supernovae to Determine the Equation of State of the Dark Energy: Is Shallow Better than Deep?

Measurements of the flux and redshifts of Type Ia supernovae have provided persuasive evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. If true, then in the context of standard FRW cosmology this suggests that the energy density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David N. Spergel , Glenn D. Starkman

Prospects of the multi-channel photometric survey telescope in the cosmological application of Type Ia supernovae

The Multi-channel Photometric Survey Telescope (Mephisto) is a real-time, three-color photometric system designed to capture the color evolution of stars and transients accurately. This telescope system can be crucial in cosmological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-19 Zhenyu Wang , Ju-Jia Zhang , Xinzhong Er , Jinming Bai

The Carnegie Supernova Project: First Near-Infrared Hubble Diagram to z~0.7

The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is designed to measure the luminosity distance for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift, and to set observational constraints on the dark energy contribution to the total energy content…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Wendy L. Freedman , Christopher R. Burns , M. M. Phillips , Pamela Wyatt , S. E. Persson , Barry F. Madore , Carlos Contreras , Gaston Folatelli , E. Sergio Gonzalez , Mario Hamuy , Eric Hsiao , Daniel D. Kelson , Nidia Morrell , D. C. Murphy , Miguel Roth , Maximilian Stritzinger , Laura Sturch , Nick B. Suntzeff , P. Astier , C. Balland , Bruce Bassett , Luis Boldt , R. G. Carlberg , Alexander J. Conley , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , J. Guy , D. Hardin , D. Andrew Howell , Richard Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , R. Pain , Kathy Perrett , N. Regnault , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , Mark Sullivan , Michael Wood-Vasey

Detectability of High-Redshift Superluminous Supernovae with Upcoming Optical and Near-Infrared Surveys

Observations of high-redshift supernovae (SNe) open a novel opportunity to study the massive star population in the early Universe. We study the detectability of superluminous SNe with upcoming optical and near-infrared (NIR) surveys. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Masaomi Tanaka , Takashi J. Moriya , Naoki Yoshida , Ken'ichi Nomoto

Spectral properties of Type Ia supernovae up to z~0.3

Aims: Spectroscopic observations of Type Ia supernovae obtained at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), in conjunction with the SDSS-II Supernova Survey, are analysed. We use spectral indicators…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Nordin , L. Ostman , A. Goobar , R. Amanullah , R. C. Nichol , M. Smith , J. Sollerman , B. A. Bassett , J. Frieman , P. M. Garnavich , G. Leloudas , M. Sako , D. P. Schneider