Testing general relativity in cosmology

M Ishak - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2019‏ - Springer
We review recent developments and results in testing general relativity (GR) at cosmological
scales. The subject has witnessed rapid growth during the last two decades with the aim of …

On the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae

M Livio, P Mazzali - Physics Reports, 2018‏ - Elsevier
We review all the models proposed for the progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae and
discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each scenario when confronted with observations …

Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid standards provide a 1% foundation for the determination of the Hubble constant and stronger evidence for physics beyond ΛCDM

AG Riess, S Casertano, W Yuan… - The Astrophysical …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present an improved determination of the Hubble constant from Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) observations of 70 long-period Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud …

The complete light-curve sample of spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and cosmological constraints from the combined pantheon sample

DM Scolnic, DO Jones, A Rest, YC Pan… - The Astrophysical …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically
confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium …

ATLAS: a high-cadence all-sky survey system

JL Tonry, L Denneau, AN Heinze… - Publications of the …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Technology has advanced to the point that it is possible to image the entire sky every night
and process the data in real time. The sky is hardly static: many interesting phenomena …

Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source

DA Coulter, RJ Foley, CD Kilpatrick, MR Drout, AL Piro… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
On 17 August 2017, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the
Virgo interferometer detected gravitational waves (GWs) emanating from a binary neutron …

The electromagnetic counterpart of the binary neutron star merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, optical, and near-infrared light curves and comparison to kilonova …

PS Cowperthwaite, E Berger, VA Villar… - The Astrophysical …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present UV, optical, and near-infrared (NIR) photometry of the first electromagnetic
counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational …

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing

TMC Abbott, M Aguena, A Alarcon, S Allam, O Alves… - Physical Review D, 2022‏ - APS
We present the first cosmology results from large-scale structure using the full 5000 deg 2 of
imaging data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Data Release 1. We perform an analysis …

Light curves of the neutron star merger GW170817/SSS17a: Implications for r-process nucleosynthesis

MR Drout, AL Piro, BJ Shappee, CD Kilpatrick… - Science, 2017‏ - science.org
On 17 August 2017, gravitational waves (GWs) were detected from a binary neutron star
merger, GW170817, along with a coincident short gamma-ray burst, GRB 170817A. An …

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Constraints on extensions to with weak lensing and galaxy clustering

TMC Abbott, M Aguena, A Alarcon, O Alves, A Amon… - Physical Review D, 2023‏ - APS
We constrain six possible extensions to the Λ cold dark matter (CDM) model using
measurements from the Dark Energy Survey's first three years of observations, alone and in …