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.
Hounsell, R., et al. “Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 867, no. 1, Nov. 2018. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aac08b. Full Text
Abbott, T. M. C., et al. “The Dark Energy Survey: Data Release 1.” Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, vol. 239, no. 2, Sept. 2018. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4365/aae9f0. Full Text
Abbott, T. M. C., et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.” Physical Review D, vol. 98, no. 4, Aug. 2018. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043526. Full Text
Goobar, Ariel, et al. “The cosmic transparency measured with Type Ia supernovae: implications for intergalactic dust.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, vol. 477, no. 1, Oxford University Press (OUP), June 2018, pp. L75–79. Crossref, doi:10.1093/mnrasl/sly053. Full Text
Scolnic, D. M., et al. “The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 859, no. 2, June 2018. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aab9bb. Full Text
Cowperthwaite, P. S., et al. “An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-field Optical Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 858, no. 1, May 2018. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aabad9. Full Text
Jones, D. O., et al. “Measuring Dark Energy Properties with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. II. Cosmological Parameters.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 857, no. 1, Apr. 2018. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aab6b1. Full Text
Foley, R. J., et al. “The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 475, no. 1, Mar. 2018, pp. 193–219. Scopus, doi:10.1093/mnras/stx3136. Full Text
Riess, A. G., et al. “Type Ia Supernova Distances at Redshift >1.5 from the Hubble Space Telescope Multi-cycle Treasury Programs: The Early Expansion Rate.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 853, no. 2, Feb. 2018. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaa5a9. Full Text
Lunnan, R., et al. “Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey.” Astrophysical Journal, vol. 852, no. 2, Jan. 2018. Scopus, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa9f1a. Full Text