Wood-Vasey Research Group

Papers related to measuring cosmology using Type Ia SNe.

• Incorporating Astrophysical Systematics into a Generalized Likelihood for Cosmology with Type Ia Supernovae

  K. Ponder, W. M. Wood-Vasey, and A. R. Zentner

• Likelihood-Free Cosmological Inference with Type Ia Supernovae: Approximate Bayesian Computation for a Complete Treatment of Uncertainty

  A. Weyant, C. Schafer, and W. M. Wood-Vasey

• Improved Dark Energy Constraints from ~100 New CfA Supernova Type Ia Light Curves

  M. Hicken, W. M. Wood-Vasey, S. Blondin et al.

• Type Ia Supernovae are Good Standard Candles in the Near Infrared: Evidence from PAIRITEL

  W. M. Wood-Vasey, A. S. Friedman, Bloom, S. Joshua et al.

• Observational Constraints on the Nature of Dark Energy: First Cosmological Results from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey

  W. M. Wood-Vasey, G. Miknaitis, C. W. Stubbs et al.

SweetSpot observes Type Ia supernovae with the WIYN High-resolution Infrared Camera on the WIYN 3.5 m telescope.

• SweetSpot: Near-Infrared Observations of Thirteen Type Ia Supernovae from a New NOAO Survey Probing the Nearby Smooth Hubble Flow

  A. Weyant, W. M. Wood-Vasey, L. Allen, P. M. Garnavich, S. W. Jha, R. Joyce, T. Matheson ApJ, 2014, Vol 784, 105.

• The First Data Release from SweetSpot: 74 Supernovae in 36 Nights on WIYN+WHIRC

  A. Weyant, W. M. Wood-Vasey, R. Joyce, L. Allen, P. Garnavich, S. W. Jha, J. R. Kroboth, T. Matheson, K. A. Ponder arXiv:1703.02402

• A Python Package for Modeling the Atmospheric Transmission Function due to Precipitable Water Vapor

  D. J. Perrefort, W. M. Wood-Vasey, K. A. Bostroem et al.

• An Unbiased Method of Modeling the Local Peculiar Velocity Field with Type Ia Supernovae

  A. Weyant, W. M. Wood-Vasey, L. Wasserman et al.

• Novae as a Mechanism for Producing Cavities around the Progenitors of SN 2002ic and Other SNe Ia

  W. M. Wood-Vasey and J. L. Sokoloski

CfAIR2 provides a homogeneously reduced dataset of near-infrared light curves of Type Ia supernovae.

• CfAIR2: Near Infrared Light Curves of 94 Type Ia Supernovae

  Friedman, A. S., W. M. Wood-Vasey, G. H. Marion et al.