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.
Huterer, D., et al. “Testing Λ CDM at the lowest redshifts with SN Ia and galaxy velocities.” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2017, no. 5, May 2017. Scopus, doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/015. Full Text
Scolnic, D. “Relative photometric calibration of optical surveys.” Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 12, no. 4, Apr. 2017. Scopus, doi:10.1088/1748-0221/12/04/C04021. Full Text
Calamida, A., et al. “The Not so Simple Globular Cluster ω Cen. I. Spatial Distribution of the Multiple Stellar Populations.” Astronomical Journal, vol. 153, no. 4, Apr. 2017. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-3881/aa6397. Full Text
Doctor, Z., et al. “A Search for Kilonovae in the Dark Energy Survey.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 837, no. 1, Mar. 2017. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa5d09. Full Text
Kessler, R., and D. Scolnic. “Correcting Type Ia Supernova Distances for Selection Biases and Contamination in Photometrically Identified Samples.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 836, no. 1, Feb. 2017. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/56. Full Text
Abbott, B. P., et al. “Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger.” Astrophysical Journal Letters, vol. 848, no. 2, Jan. 2017. Scopus, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9. Full Text
Cinabro, D., et al. “Search for Type Ia supernova NUV-optical subclasses.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 466, no. 1, Jan. 2017, pp. 884–91. Scopus, doi:10.1093/mnras/stw3109. Full Text
Hung, T., et al. “THE GALEX TIME DOMAIN SURVEY. II. WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT VARIABILITY of ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI in the PAN-STARRS1 MEDIUM DEEP SURVEY.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 833, no. 2, Dec. 2016. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/226. Full Text
Gupta, R. R., et al. “HOST GALAXY IDENTIFICATION for SUPERNOVA SURVEYS.” Astronomical Journal, vol. 152, no. 6, Dec. 2016. Scopus, doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/154. Full Text
Lunnan, R., et al. “PS1-14bj: A hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova with a long rise and slow decay.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 831, no. 2, Nov. 2016. Scopus, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/144. Full Text