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SLSim: a strong lensing population simulation package
Narayan Khadka, Simon Birrer, Henry Best +45
Gravitational lensing offers unique insights into cosmology by bending light around massive objects. Strong gravitational lensing, in particular, produces magnified and often multi…
Feeling Blue: Constructing a Robust SALT3 UV Template and Constraining its Redshift Dependency
Qinan Wang, David O. Jones, Justin D. R. Pierel +13
Upcoming cosmological surveys will obtain numerous rest-frame ultraviolet (UV) observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), yet there is concern about how standardizable SNe Ia are…
SN 2025ogs: A Spectroscopically-Normal Type Ia Supernova at z = 2 as a Benchmark for Redshift Evolution
M. R. Siebert, J. D. R. Pierel, M. Engesser +20
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide a revolutionary measurement of the Universe's expansion kinematics, driven by dark matter and dark energy, out to .…
HOLISMOKES XIX: SN 2025wny at , the first strongly lensed superluminous supernova
Stefan Taubenberger, Ana Acebron, Raoul Cañameras +45
We present imaging and spectroscopic observations of supernova SN 2025wny, associated with the lens candidate PS1 J0716+3821. Photometric monitoring from the Lulin and Maidanak obs…
Testing Lens Models of PLCK G165.7+67.0 Using Lensed SN H0pe
Aadya Agrawal, J. D. R. Pierel, Gautham Narayan +9
Supernova H0pe is a multiply-imaged Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) and the second lensed SN to yield a measurement of the Hubble constant by the time-delay cosmography method, finding $…
Cosmology with supernova Encore in the strong lensing cluster MACS J0138-2155: Time delays & Hubble constant measurement
J. D. R. Pierel, E. E. Hayes, M. Millon +26
Multiply-imaged supernovae (SNe) provide a novel means of constraining the Hubble constant (). Such measurements require a combination of precise models of the lensing mass di…
Cosmology with supernova Encore in the strong lensing cluster MACS J0138-2155: Lens model comparison and H0 measurement
S. H. Suyu, A. Acebron, C. Grillo +28
MACS J0138-2155 is the only known cluster to strongly lens two supernovae (SNe), Requiem and Encore, from the same host galaxy at z=1.949. We present seven independent mass models…
The Roman View of Strong Gravitational Lenses
Bryce Wedig, Tansu Daylan, Simon Birrer +13
Galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses can constrain dark matter models and the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological paradigm at sub-galactic scales. Currently, there is a deart…
Cosmology with supernova Encore in the strong lensing cluster MACS J01382155: photometry, cluster members, and lens mass model
S. Ertl, S. H. Suyu, S. Schuldt +23
The strongly lensed Supernova (SN) Encore at a redshift of , discovered behind the galaxy cluster MACS J01382155 at , provides a rare opportunity for time-de…
Testing for Intrinsic Type Ia Supernova Luminosity Evolution at z>2 with JWST
J. D. R. Pierel, D. A. Coulter, M. R. Siebert +38
The James Webb Space Telescope} (JWST) is opening new frontiers of transient discovery and follow-up at high-redshift. Here we present the discovery of a spectroscopically confirme…
Find the haystacks, then look for needles: The rate of strongly lensed transients in galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lenses
Ana Sainz de Murieta, Thomas E. Collett, Mark R. Magee +5
The time delay between appearances of multiple images of a gravitationally lensed supernova (glSN) is sensitive to the Hubble constant, . As well as time delays, a lensed host…
Lensed Type Ia Supernova "Encore" at z=2: The First Instance of Two Multiply-Imaged Supernovae in the Same Host Galaxy
J. D. R. Pierel, A. B. Newman, S. Dhawan +60
A bright (=24 mag), supernova (SN) candidate was discovered in JWST/NIRCam imaging acquired on 2023 November 17. The SN is quintuply-imaged as a result o…
JWST Photometric Time-Delay and Magnification Measurements for the Triply-Imaged Type Ia "Supernova H0pe" at z = 1.78
J. D. R. Pierel, B. L. Frye, M. Pascale +60
Supernova (SN) H0pe is a gravitationally lensed, triply-imaged, Type Ia SN (SN Ia) discovered in James Webb Space Telescope imaging of the PLCK G165.7+67.0 cluster of galaxies. Wel…
SN H0pe: The First Measurement of from a Multiply-Imaged Type Ia Supernova, Discovered by JWST
Massimo Pascale, Brenda L. Frye, Justin D. R. Pierel +21
The first James Webb Space Telescope ({\it JWST}) Near InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) imaging in the field of the galaxy cluster PLCK G165.7+67.0 () uncovered a Type Ia supernova…
The Magnificent Five Images of Supernova Refsdal: Time Delay and Magnification Measurements
Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu +28
In late 2014, four images of Supernova (SN) "Refsdal," the first known example of a strongly lensed SN with multiple resolved images, were detected in the MACS J1149 galaxy-cluster…
Constraints on the Hubble constant from Supernova Refsdal's reappearance
Patrick L. Kelly, Steven Rodney, Tommaso Treu +27
The gravitationally lensed Supernova Refsdal appeared in multiple images, produced through gravitational lensing by a massive foreground galaxy cluster. After the supernova appeare…
SALT2 Versus SALT3: Updated Model Surfaces and Their Impacts on Type Ia Supernova Cosmology
G. Taylor, D. O. Jones, B. Popovic +6
For the past decade, SALT2 has been the most common model used to fit Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) light curves for dark energy analyses. Recently, the SALT3 model was released, which…
The DEHVILS Survey Overview and Initial Data Release: High-Quality Near-Infrared Type Ia Supernova Light Curves at Low Redshift
Erik R. Peterson, David O. Jones, Daniel Scolnic +17
While the sample of optical Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) light curves (LCs) usable for cosmological parameter measurements surpasses 2000, the sample of published, cosmologically viab…
Propagating Uncertainties in the SALT3 Model Training Process to Cosmological Constraints
M. Dai, D. O. Jones, W. D. Kenworthy +5
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are standardizable candles that must be modeled empirically to yield cosmological constraints. To understand the robustness of this modeling to variatio…
LensWatch: I. Resolved HST Observations and Constraints on the Strongly-Lensed Type Ia Supernova 2022qmx ("SN Zwicky")
J. D. R. Pierel, N. Arendse, S. Ertl +39
Supernovae (SNe) that have been multiply-imaged by gravitational lensing are rare and powerful probes for cosmology. Each detection is an opportunity to develop the critical tools…
Uncovering a population of gravitational lens galaxies with magnified standard candle SN Zwicky
Ariel Goobar, Joel Johansson, Steve Schulze +35
Detecting gravitationally lensed supernovae is among the biggest challenges in astronomy. It involves a combination of two very rare phenomena: catching the transient signal of a s…
SALT3-NIR: Taking the Open-Source Type Ia Supernova Model to Longer Wavelengths for Next-Generation Cosmological Measurements
J. D. R. Pierel, D. O. Jones, W. D. Kenworthy +32
A large fraction of Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations over the next decade will be in the near-infrared (NIR), at wavelengths beyond the reach of the current standard light-cu…
A Spectroscopic Model of the Type Ia Supernova--Host Galaxy Mass Correlation from SALT3
D. O. Jones, W. D. Kenworthy, M. Dai +4
The unknown cause of the correlation between Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) Hubble residuals and their host-galaxy masses (the "mass step") may bias cosmological parameter measurements.…
JWST's PEARLS: Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results
Rogier A. Windhorst, Seth H. Cohen, Rolf A. Jansen +82
We give an overview and describe the rationale, methods, and first results from NIRCam images of the JWST "Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science" ("PEARLS"…