Daniel M. Scolnic
Assistant Professor of Physics
Overview
Lead Type Ia SN cosmology studies for Pan-STARRS, DES, LSST and WFIRST. Work on new image analysis techniques and finding optical counterparts to gravitational waves.
Selected Grants
Big Data and the Biggest Tension in Cosmology awarded by (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2024
Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University awarded by Department of Energy (Co Investigator). 2013 to 2021
Shajib, A. J., et al. “STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408−5354.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 494, no. 4, Oxford University Press (OUP), June 2020, pp. 6072–102. Crossref, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa828. Full Text
Pursiainen, M., et al. “The mystery of photometric twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 494, no. 4, Oxford University Press (OUP), June 2020, pp. 5576–89. Crossref, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa995. Full Text
Smith, M., et al. “First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: the effect of host galaxy properties on supernova luminosity.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 494, no. 3, Oxford University Press (OUP), May 2020, pp. 4426–47. Crossref, doi:10.1093/mnras/staa946. Full Text Open Access Copy
Pesce, D. W., et al. “The Megamaser Cosmology Project. XIII. Combined Hubble Constant Constraints.” Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 891, no. 1, Mar. 2020. Scopus, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/ab75f0. Full Text
Popovic, B., et al. “Assessment of Systematic Uncertainties in the Cosmological Analysis of the SDSS Supernovae Photometric Sample.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 890, no. 2, Feb. 2020. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab6deb. Full Text
Huang, C. D., et al. “Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Mira Variables in the SN Ia Host NGC 1559: An Alternative Candle to Measure the Hubble Constant.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 889, no. 1, Jan. 2020. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab5dbd. Full Text
Yuan, W., et al. “Consistent calibration of the tip of the red giant branch in the large magellanic cloud on the hubble space telescope photometric system and a redetermination of the hubble constant.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 886, no. 1, Nov. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab4bc9. Full Text
Villar, V. A., et al. “Supernova Photometric Classification Pipelines Trained on Spectroscopically Classified Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 884, no. 1, Oct. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab418c. Full Text
Morgan, R., et al. “A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrino Alerts.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 883, no. 2, Oct. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab3a45. Full Text
Feinstein, A. D., et al. “Eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS full-frame images.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 131, no. 1003, Sept. 2019. Scopus, doi:10.1088/1538-3873/ab291c. Full Text
Pages
Diehl, H. T., et al. “The Dark Energy Survey and operations: Years 4 and 5.” Proceedings of Spie the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 10704, 2018. Scopus, doi:10.1117/12.2312113. Full Text