Daniel M. Scolnic | Scholars@Duke

Daniel M. Scolnic
Assistant Professor of Physics

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.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Physics, Physics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019

Contact Information

Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708
daniel.scolnic@duke.edu

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University 2013
- B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2007
Recognition
In the News
- OCT 15, 2019
  
  Prestigious Packard Fellowship Supports Duke Cosmologist in Answering Questions About What Makes Up the Universe
Research
Selected Grants
- Big Data and the Biggest Tension in Cosmology 2019 - 2024
- Research in High Energy Physics at Duke University awarded by Department of Energy 2013 - 2021
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Wiseman, P., M. Smith, M. Childress, L. Kelsey, A. Möller, R. R. Gupta, E. Swann, et al. “Supernova host galaxies in the dark energy survey: I. Deep coadds, photometry, and stellar masses.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 495, no. 4 (July 11, 2020): 4040–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1302.
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  - Pursiainen, M., C. P. Gutiérrez, P. Wiseman, M. Childress, M. Smith, C. Frohmaier, C. Angus, et al. “The mystery of photometric twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494, no. 4 (June 1, 2020): 5576–89. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa995.
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  - Shajib, A. J., S. Birrer, T. Treu, A. Agnello, E. J. Buckley-Geer, J. H. H. Chan, L. Christensen, et al. “STRIDES: a 3.9 per cent measurement of the Hubble constant from the strong lens system DES J0408−5354.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494, no. 4 (June 1, 2020): 6072–6102. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa828.
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  - Smith, M., M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman, R. Kessler, D. Scolnic, D. Brout, C. B. D’Andrea, et al. “First cosmology results using type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: the effect of host galaxy properties on supernova luminosity.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 494, no. 3 (May 21, 2020): 4426–47. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa946.
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  - Dhawan, S., D. Brout, D. Scolnic, A. Goobar, A. G. Riess, and V. Miranda. “Cosmological Model Insensitivity of Local H 0 from the Cepheid Distance Ladder.” Astrophysical Journal 894, no. 1 (May 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab7fb0.
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  - Pesce, D. W., J. A. Braatz, M. J. Reid, A. G. Riess, D. Scolnic, J. J. Condon, F. Gao, et al. “The Megamaser Cosmology Project. XIII. Combined Hubble Constant Constraints.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 891, no. 1 (March 1, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab75f0.
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  - Popovic, B., D. Scolnic, and R. Kessler. “Assessment of Systematic Uncertainties in the Cosmological Analysis of the SDSS Supernovae Photometric Sample.” Astrophysical Journal 890, no. 2 (February 20, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6deb.
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  - Huang, C. D., A. G. Riess, W. Yuan, L. M. Macri, N. L. Zakamska, S. Casertano, P. A. Whitelock, S. L. Hoffmann, A. V. Filippenko, and D. Scolnic. “Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Mira Variables in the SN Ia Host NGC 1559: An Alternative Candle to Measure the Hubble Constant.” Astrophysical Journal 889, no. 1 (January 20, 2020). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5dbd.
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  - Yuan, W., A. G. Riess, L. M. Macri, S. Casertano, and D. M. Scolnic. “Consistent calibration of the tip of the red giant branch in the large magellanic cloud on the hubble space telescope photometric system and a redetermination of the hubble constant.” Astrophysical Journal 886, no. 1 (November 20, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4bc9.
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  - Villar, V. A., E. Berger, G. Miller, R. Chornock, A. Rest, D. O. Jones, M. R. Drout, et al. “Supernova Photometric Classification Pipelines Trained on Spectroscopically Classified Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium-deep Survey.” Astrophysical Journal 884, no. 1 (October 10, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab418c.
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  - Morgan, R., K. Bechtol, R. Kessler, M. Sako, K. Herner, Z. Doctor, D. Scolnic, et al. “A DECam Search for Explosive Optical Transients Associated with IceCube Neutrino Alerts.” Astrophysical Journal 883, no. 2 (October 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab3a45.
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  - Feinstein, A. D., B. T. Montet, D. Foreman-Mackey, M. E. Bedell, N. Saunders, J. L. Bean, J. L. Christiansen, et al. “Eleanor: An open-source tool for extracting light curves from the TESS full-frame images.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 131, no. 1003 (September 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/ab291c.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, S. Avila, M. Banerji, E. Baxter, K. Bechtol, M. R. Becker, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Constraints on extended cosmological models from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.” Physical Review D 99, no. 12 (June 7, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.123505.
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  - Hemmati, S., P. Capak, D. Masters, I. Davidzon, O. Dore, J. Kruk, B. Mobasher, J. Rhodes, D. Scolnic, and D. Stern. “Photometric Redshift Calibration Requirements for WFIRST Weak-lensing Cosmology: Predictions from CANDELS.” Astrophysical Journal 877, no. 2 (June 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1be5.
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  - MacAulay, E., R. C. Nichol, D. Bacon, D. Brout, T. M. Davis, B. Zhang, B. A. Bassett, et al. “First cosmological results using Type Ia supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Measurement of the Hubble constant.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 486, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 2184–96. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz978.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., A. Alarcon, S. Allam, P. Andersen, F. Andrade-Oliveira, J. Annis, J. Asorey, et al. “Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey.” Physical Review Letters 122, no. 17 (May 2019): 171301. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.171301.
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  - Dore, Olivier, C. Hirata, Y. Wang, D. Weinberg, Tim Eifler, R. J. Foley, C He Heinrich, et al. “WFIRST: The Essential Cosmology Space Observatory for the Coming Decade.” \Baas 51 (May 2019): 341–341.
  - Hinton, S. R., T. M. Davis, A. G. Kim, D. Brout, C. B. D’Andrea, R. Kessler, J. Lasker, et al. “Steve: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Supernova Cosmology.” Astrophysical Journal 876, no. 1 (May 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab13a3.
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  - Kessler, R., D. Brout, C. B. D’Andrea, T. M. Davis, S. R. Hinton, A. G. Kim, J. Lasker, et al. “First cosmology results using Type Ia supernova from the Dark Energy Survey: Simulations to correct supernova distance biases.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 485, no. 1 (May 1, 2019): 1171–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz463.
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  - Riess, A. G., S. Casertano, W. Yuan, L. M. Macri, and D. Scolnic. “Large Magellanic Cloud Cepheid Standards Provide a 1% Foundation for the Determination of the Hubble Constant and Stronger Evidence for Physics beyond ΛcDM.” Astrophysical Journal 876, no. 1 (May 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab1422.
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  - Kenworthy, W. D. A., D. Scolnic, and A. Riess. “The Local Perspective on the Hubble Tension: Local Structure Does Not Impact Measurement of the Hubble Constant.” Astrophysical Journal 875, no. 2 (April 20, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0ebf.
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  - Brownsberger, S. R., C. W. Stubbs, and D. M. Scolnic. “Constraining Temporal Oscillations of Cosmological Parameters Using SNe Ia.” Astrophysical Journal 875, no. 1 (April 10, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0c09.
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  - Brout, D., D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, C. B. D’Andrea, T. M. Davis, R. R. Gupta, S. R. Hinton, et al. “First Cosmology Results Using SNe Ia from the Dark Energy Survey: Analysis, Systematic Uncertainties, and Validation.” Astrophysical Journal 874, no. 2 (April 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab08a0.
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  - Brout, D., M. Sako, D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, C. B. D’Andrea, T. M. Davis, S. R. Hinton, et al. “First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Photometric Pipeline and Light-curve Data Release.” Astrophysical Journal 874, no. 1 (March 20, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab06c1.
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  - Cowperthwaite, P. S., V. A. Villar, D. M. Scolnic, and E. Berger. “LSST Target-of-opportunity Observations of Gravitational-wave Events: Essential and Efficient.” Astrophysical Journal 874, no. 1 (March 20, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab07b6.
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  - Lasker, J., R. Kessler, D. Scolnic, D. Brout, D. L. Burke, C. B. D’Andrea, T. M. Davis, et al. “First cosmology results using Type IA supernovae from the dark energy survey: Effects of chromatic corrections to supernova photometry on measurements of cosmological parameters.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 485, no. 4 (March 13, 2019): 5329–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz619.
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  - Akeson, Rachel, Lee Armus, Etienne Bachelet, Vanessa Bailey, Lisa Bartusek, Andrea Bellini, Dominic Benford, et al. “The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope: 100 Hubbles for the 2020s.” Arxiv E Prints, February 2019, arXiv:1902.05569-arXiv:1902.05569.
  - Feeney, Stephen M., Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew R. Williamson, Samaya M. Nissanke, Daniel J. Mortlock, Justin Alsing, and Dan Scolnic. “Prospects for Resolving the Hubble Constant Tension with Standard Sirens.” Physical Review Letters 122, no. 6 (February 2019): 061105. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.061105.
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  - Crocce, M., A. J. Ross, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Gaztanaga, J. Elvin-Poole, S. Avila, A. Alarcon, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Galaxy sample for BAO measurement.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 482, no. 2 (January 11, 2019): 2807–22. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty2522.
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  - Walter, Christopher W., Daniel M. Scolnic, and Anže Slosar. “LSST Target of Opportunity proposal for locating a core collapse supernova in our galaxy triggered by a neutrino supernova alert,” January 6, 2019.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., S. Allam, P. Andersen, C. Angus, J. Asorey, A. Avelino, S. Avila, et al. “First Cosmology Results using Type Ia Supernovae from the Dark Energy Survey: Constraints on Cosmological Parameters.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 872, no. 2 (January 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab04fa.
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  - Dimitriadis, G., R. J. Foley, A. Rest, D. Kasen, A. L. Piro, A. Polin, D. O. Jones, et al. “K2 Observations of SN 2018oh Reveal a Two-component Rising Light Curve for a Type Ia Supernova.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 870, no. 1 (January 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaedb0.
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  - Katebi, R., R. Chornock, E. Berger, D. O. Jones, R. Lunnan, R. Margutti, A. Rest, et al. “PS1-13cbe: The rapid transition of a Seyfert 2 to a Seyfert 1.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 487, no. 3 (January 1, 2019): 4057–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz1552.
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  - Wang, Y., M. Robberto, M. Dickinson, L. A. Hillenbrand, W. Fraser, P. Behroozi, J. Brinchmann, et al. “ATLAS probe: Breakthrough science of galaxy evolution, cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, January 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1017/pasa.2019.5.
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  - Jones, D. O., A. G. Riess, D. M. Scolnic, Y. C. Pan, E. Johnson, D. A. Coulter, K. G. Dettman, et al. “Should Type Ia Supernova Distances Be Corrected for Their Local Environments?” Astrophysical Journal 867, no. 2 (November 10, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aae2b9.
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  - Hounsell, R., D. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, R. Kessler, V. Miranda, A. Avelino, R. C. Bohlin, et al. “Simulations of the WFIRST Supernova Survey and Forecasts of Cosmological Constraints.” Astrophysical Journal 867, no. 1 (November 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aac08b.
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  - Pierel, J. D. R., S. Rodney, A. Avelino, F. Bianco, A. V. Filippenko, R. J. Foley, A. Friedman, et al. “Extending supernova spectral templates for next-generation space telescope observations.” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 130, no. 993 (November 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/aadb7a.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, S. Allam, A. Amara, J. Annis, J. Asorey, S. Avila, et al. “The Dark Energy Survey: Data Release 1.” Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series 239, no. 2 (September 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aae9f0.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, A. Alarcon, J. Aleksić, S. Allam, S. Allen, A. Amara, et al. “Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.” Physical Review D 98, no. 4 (August 15, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.043526.
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  - Goobar, Ariel, Suhail Dhawan, and Daniel Scolnic. “The cosmic transparency measured with Type Ia supernovae: implications for intergalactic dust.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters 477, no. 1 (June 11, 2018): L75–79. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/sly053.
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  - Scolnic, D. M., D. O. Jones, A. Rest, Y. C. Pan, R. Chornock, R. J. Foley, M. E. Huber, 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 859, no. 2 (June 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aab9bb.
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  - Cowperthwaite, P. S., E. Berger, A. Rest, R. Chornock, D. M. Scolnic, P. K. G. Williams, W. Fong, et al. “An Empirical Study of Contamination in Deep, Rapid, and Wide-field Optical Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events.” Astrophysical Journal 858, no. 1 (May 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aabad9.
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  - Jones, D. O., D. M. Scolnic, A. G. Riess, A. Rest, R. P. Kirshner, E. Berger, R. Kessler, et al. “Measuring Dark Energy Properties with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. II. Cosmological Parameters.” Astrophysical Journal 857, no. 1 (April 10, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aab6b1.
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  - Foley, R. J., D. Scolnic, A. Rest, W. Jha, Y. C. Pan, A. G. Riess, P. Challis, et al. “The Foundation Supernova Survey: Motivation, design, implementation, and first data release.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 475, no. 1 (March 21, 2018): 193–219. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx3136.
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  - Riess, A. G., S. A. Rodney, D. M. Scolnic, D. L. Shafer, L. G. Strolger, H. C. Ferguson, M. Postman, 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 853, no. 2 (February 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa5a9.
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  - Lunnan, R., R. Chornock, E. Berger, D. O. Jones, A. Rest, I. Czekala, J. Dittmann, et al. “Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey.” Astrophysical Journal 852, no. 2 (January 10, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9f1a.
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  - Abbott, T. M. C., F. B. Abdalla, J. Annis, K. Bechtol, J. Blazek, B. A. Benson, R. A. Bernstein, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: A Precise H0 Estimate from DES Y1, BAO, and D/H Data.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 480, no. 3 (January 1, 2018): 3879–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STY1939.
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  - Burke, D. L., E. S. Rykoff, S. Allam, J. Annis, K. Bechtol, G. M. Bernstein, A. Drlica-Wagner, et al. “Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey.” Astronomical Journal 155, no. 1 (January 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa9f22.
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  - Scolnic, D., R. Kessler, D. Brout, P. S. Cowperthwaite, M. Soares-Santos, J. Annis, K. Herner, et al. “How Many Kilonovae Can Be Found in Past, Present, and Future Survey Data Sets?” Astrophysical Journal Letters 852, no. 1 (January 1, 2018). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9d82.
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  - Guidorzi, C., R. Margutti, D. Brout, D. Scolnic, W. Fong, K. D. Alexander, P. S. Cowperthwaite, et al. “Improved Constraints on H 0 from a Combined Analysis of Gravitational-wave and Electromagnetic Emission from GW170817.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 851, no. 2 (December 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaa009.
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  - Palmese, A., W. Hartley, F. Tarsitano, C. Conselice, O. Lahav, S. Allam, J. Annis, et al. “Evidence for Dynamically Driven Formation of the GW170817 Neutron Star Binary in NGC 4993.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 849, no. 2 (November 10, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9660.
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  - Childress, M. J., C. Lidman, T. M. Davis, B. E. Tucker, J. Asorey, F. Yuan, T. M. C. Abbott, et al. “OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: 3-yr results and first data release.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 472, no. 1 (November 1, 2017): 273–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1872.
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  - LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration, J Kevin, J Kevin 1M2H Collaboration, J Kevin Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration and the DES Collaboration, J Kevin DLT40 Collaboration, J Kevin Las Cumbres Observatory Collaboration, J Kevin VINROUGE Collaboration, and J Kevin MASTER Collaboration. “A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant.” Nature 551, no. 7678 (November 2017): 85–88. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24471.
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  - Chornock, R., E. Berger, D. Kasen, P. S. Cowperthwaite, M. Nicholl, V. A. Villar, K. D. Alexander, et al. “The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. IV. Detection of Near-infrared Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis with Gemini-South.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, no. 2 (October 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa905c.
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  - Cowperthwaite, P. S., E. Berger, V. A. Villar, B. D. Metzger, M. Nicholl, R. Chornock, P. K. Blanchard, et al. “The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. II. UV, Optical, and Near-infrared Light Curves and Comparison to Kilonova Models.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, no. 2 (October 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8fc7.
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  - Soares-Santos, M., D. E. Holz, J. Annis, R. Chornock, K. Herner, E. Berger, D. Brout, et al. “The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/Virgo GW170817. I. Discovery of the Optical Counterpart Using the Dark Energy Camera.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, no. 2 (October 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9059.
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  - Jones, D. O., D. M. Scolnic, A. G. Riess, R. Kessler, A. Rest, R. P. Kirshner, E. Berger, et al. “Measuring the Properties of Dark Energy with Photometrically Classified Pan-STARRS Supernovae. I. Systematic Uncertainty from Core-collapse Supernova Contamination.” Astrophysical Journal 843, no. 1 (July 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa767b.
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  - Mandel, K. S., D. M. Scolnic, H. Shariff, R. J. Foley, and R. P. Kirshner. “The Type Ia Supernova Color-Magnitude Relation and Host Galaxy Dust: A Simple Hierarchical Bayesian Model.” Astrophysical Journal 842, no. 2 (June 20, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa6038.
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  - Huterer, D., D. L. Shafer, D. M. Scolnic, and F. Schmidt. “Testing Λ CDM at the lowest redshifts with SN Ia and galaxy velocities.” Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2017, no. 5 (May 5, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/015.
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  - Scolnic, D. “Relative photometric calibration of optical surveys.” Journal of Instrumentation 12, no. 4 (April 26, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/04/C04021.
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  - Calamida, A., G. Strampelli, A. Rest, G. Bono, I. Ferraro, A. Saha, G. Iannicola, et al. “The Not so Simple Globular Cluster ω Cen. I. Spatial Distribution of the Multiple Stellar Populations.” Astronomical Journal 153, no. 4 (April 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa6397.
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  - Doctor, Z., R. Kessler, H. Y. Chen, B. Farr, D. A. Finley, R. J. Foley, D. A. Goldstein, et al. “A Search for Kilonovae in the Dark Energy Survey.” Astrophysical Journal 837, no. 1 (March 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa5d09.
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  - Kessler, R., and D. Scolnic. “Correcting Type Ia Supernova Distances for Selection Biases and Contamination in Photometrically Identified Samples.” Astrophysical Journal 836, no. 1 (February 10, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/836/1/56.
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  - Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, et al. “Multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 848, no. 2 (January 1, 2017). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9.
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  - Cinabro, D., D. Scolnic, R. Kessler, A. Li, and J. Miller. “Search for Type Ia supernova NUV-optical subclasses.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 466, no. 1 (January 1, 2017): 884–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3109.
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  - Hung, T., S. Gezari, D. O. Jones, R. P. Kirshner, R. Chornock, E. Berger, A. Rest, et al. “THE GALEX TIME DOMAIN SURVEY. II. WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT VARIABILITY of ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI in the PAN-STARRS1 MEDIUM DEEP SURVEY.” Astrophysical Journal 833, no. 2 (December 20, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/226.
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  - Gupta, R. R., S. Kuhlmann, E. Kovacs, H. Spinka, R. Kessler, D. A. Goldstein, C. Liotine, et al. “HOST GALAXY IDENTIFICATION for SUPERNOVA SURVEYS.” Astronomical Journal 152, no. 6 (December 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/152/6/154.
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  - Lunnan, R., R. Chornock, E. Berger, D. Milisavljevic, D. O. Jones, A. Rest, W. Fong, et al. “PS1-14bj: A hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova with a long rise and slow decay.” Astrophysical Journal 831, no. 2 (November 10, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/2/144.
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  - Nicholl, M., S. J. Smartt, A. Jerkstrand, C. Inserra, M. McCrum, R. Kotak, M. Fraser, et al. “Corrigendum: Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions.” Nature 539, no. 7630 (November 2016): 598. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19850.
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  - Nord, B., E. Buckley-Geer, H. Lin, H. T. Diehl, J. Helsby, N. Kuropatkin, A. Amara, et al. “OBSERVATION and CONFIRMATION of SIX STRONG-LENSING SYSTEMS in the DARK ENERGY SURVEY SCIENCE VERIFICATION DATA.” Astrophysical Journal 827, no. 1 (August 10, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/827/1/51.
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  - Cowperthwaite, P. S., E. Berger, M. Soares-Santos, J. Annis, D. Brout, D. A. Brown, E. Buckley-Geer, et al. “A DECAM SEARCH for AN OPTICAL COUNTERPART to the LIGO GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE EVENT GW151226.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 826, no. 2 (August 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/826/2/L29.
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  - Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, et al. “Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 826, no. 1 (July 20, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/826/1/L13.
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  - Riess, A. G., L. M. Macri, S. L. Hoffmann, D. Scolnic, S. Casertano, A. V. Filippenko, B. E. Tucker, et al. “A 2.4% DETERMINATION of the LOCAL VALUE of the HUBBLE CONSTANT.” Astrophysical Journal 826, no. 1 (July 20, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/56.
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  - Abbott, B. P., R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, et al. “SUPPLEMENT: "LOCALIZATION and BROADBAND FOLLOW-UP of the GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENT GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13).” Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series 225, no. 1 (July 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/225/1/8.
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  - Li, T. S., D. L. Depoy, J. L. Marshall, D. Tucker, R. Kessler, J. Annis, G. M. Bernstein, et al. “ASSESSMENT of SYSTEMATIC CHROMATIC ERRORS THAT IMPACT SUB-1% PHOTOMETRIC PRECISION in LARGE-AREA SKY SURVEYS.” Astronomical Journal 151, no. 6 (June 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/6/157.
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  - Soares-Santos, M., R. Kessler, E. Berger, J. Annis, D. Brout, E. Buckley-Geer, H. Chen, et al. “A DARK ENERGY CAMERA SEARCH for AN OPTICAL COUNTERPART to the FIRST ADVANCED LIGO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EVENT GW150914.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 823, no. 2 (June 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L33.
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  - Scolnic, D., and R. Kessler. “MEASURING TYPE IA SUPERNOVA POPULATIONS of STRETCH and COLOR and PREDICTING DISTANCE BIASES.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 822, no. 2 (May 10, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/822/2/L35.
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  - Wolf, R. C., C. B. D’Andrea, R. R. Gupta, M. Sako, J. A. Fischer, R. Kessler, S. W. Jha, et al. “SDSS-II SUPERNOVA SURVEY: AN ANALYSIS of the LARGEST SAMPLE of TYPE IA SUPERNOVAE and CORRELATIONS with HOST-GALAXY SPECTRAL PROPERTIES.” Astrophysical Journal 821, no. 2 (April 20, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/821/2/115.
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  - Rodney, S. A., A. G. Riess, D. M. Scolnic, D. O. Jones, S. Hemmati, A. Molino, C. McCully, et al. “Erratum: Two SNe Ia at redshift ∼2: Improved classification and redshift determination with medium-band infrared imaging (Astronomical Journal (2015) 150 (156)).” Astronomical Journal 151, no. 2 (February 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/47.
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  - Scolnic, D., S. Casertano, A. Riess, A. Rest, E. Schlafly, R. J. Foley, D. Finkbeiner, et al. “SUPERCAL: CROSS-CALIBRATION of MULTIPLE PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEMS to IMPROVE COSMOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS with TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE.” Astrophysical Journal 815, no. 2 (December 20, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/815/2/117.
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  - Kessler, R., J. Marriner, M. Childress, R. Covarrubias, C. B. D’Andrea, D. A. Finley, J. Fischer, et al. “THE DIFFERENCE IMAGING PIPELINE for the TRANSIENT SEARCH in the DARK ENERGY SURVEY.” Astronomical Journal 150, no. 6 (December 1, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/6/172.
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  - Rodney, S. A., A. G. Riess, D. M. Scolnic, D. O. Jones, S. Hemmati, A. Molino, C. McCully, et al. “Two SNe Ia at redshift ∼2: Improved classification and redshift determination with medium-band infrared imaging.” Astronomical Journal 150, no. 5 (November 1, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/5/156.
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  - Yuan, F., C. Lidman, T. M. Davis, M. Childress, F. B. Abdalla, M. Banerji, E. Buckley-Geer, et al. “OzDES multifibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: First-year operation and results.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 452, no. 3 (October 27, 2015): 3047–63. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1507.
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  - Jones, D. O., A. G. Riess, and D. M. Scolnic. “Reconsidering the effects of local star formation on type Ia supernova cosmology.” Astrophysical Journal 812, no. 1 (October 10, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/812/1/31.
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  - Rodney, S. A., B. Patel, D. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, A. Molino, G. Brammer, M. Jauzac, et al. “Illuminating a dark lens: A type ia supernova magnified by the frontier fields galaxy cluster abell 2744.” Astrophysical Journal 811, no. 1 (September 20, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/811/1/70.
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  - Lunnan, R., R. Chornock, E. Berger, A. Rest, W. Fong, D. Scolnic, D. O. Jones, et al. “Zooming in on the progenitors of superluminous supernovae with the HST.” Astrophysical Journal 804, no. 2 (May 10, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/804/2/90.
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  - Gezari, S., D. O. Jones, N. E. Sanders, A. M. Soderberg, T. Hung, S. Heinis, S. J. Smartt, et al. “Galex detection of shock breakout in type IIP supernova PS1-13arp: Implications for the progenitor star wind.” Astrophysical Journal 804, no. 1 (May 1, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/804/1/28.
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  - Kumar, S., S. Gezari, S. Heinis, R. Chornock, E. Berger, A. Rest, M. E. Huber, et al. “Selection of burst-like transients and stochastic variables using multi-band image differencing in the pan-starrs1 medium-deep survey.” Astrophysical Journal 802, no. 1 (March 20, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/802/1/27.
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  - Kelly, Patrick L., Steven A. Rodney, Tommaso Treu, Ryan J. Foley, Gabriel Brammer, Kasper B. Schmidt, Adi Zitrin, et al. “Astrophysics. Multiple images of a highly magnified supernova formed by an early-type cluster galaxy lens.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6226 (March 2015): 1123–26. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa3350.
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  - McCrum, M., S. J. Smartt, A. Rest, K. Smith, R. Kotak, S. A. Rodney, D. R. Young, et al. “Selecting superluminous supernovae in faint galaxies from the first year of the Pan-STARRS1 medium deep survey.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 448, no. 2 (January 1, 2015): 1206–31. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv034.
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  - Rest, A., D. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, M. E. Huber, R. Chornock, G. Narayan, J. L. Tonry, et al. “Cosmological constraints from measurements of type Ia supernovae discovered during the first 1.5 yr of the Pan-STARRS1 survey.” Astrophysical Journal 795, no. 1 (November 1, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/795/1/44.
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  - Scolnic, D., A. Rest, A. Riess, M. E. Huber, R. J. Foley, D. Brout, R. Chornock, et al. “Systematic uncertainties associated with the cosmological analysis of the first PAN-STARRS1 type Ia supernova sample.” Astrophysical Journal 795, no. 1 (November 1, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/795/1/45.
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  - Drout, M. R., R. Chornock, A. M. Soderberg, N. E. Sanders, R. McKinnon, A. Rest, R. J. Foley, et al. “Rapidly evolving and luminous transients from Pan-STARRS1.” Astrophysical Journal 794, no. 1 (October 10, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/23.
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  - Lunnan, R., R. Chornock, E. Berger, T. Laskar, W. Fong, A. Rest, N. E. Sanders, et al. “Hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae and long-duration gamma-ray bursts have similar host galaxies.” Astrophysical Journal 787, no. 2 (June 1, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/787/2/138.
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  - Chornock, R., E. Berger, S. Gezari, B. A. Zauderer, A. Rest, L. Chomiuk, A. Kamble, et al. “The ultraviolet-bright, slowly declining transient PS1-11af as a partial tidal disruption event.” Astrophysical Journal 780, no. 1 (January 1, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/44.
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  - Scolnic, D. M., A. G. Riess, R. J. Foley, A. Rest, S. A. Rodney, D. J. Brout, and D. O. Jones. “Color dispersion and milky-way-like reddening among type Ia supernovae.” Astrophysical Journal 780, no. 1 (January 1, 2014). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/780/1/37.
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  - Nicholl, M., S. J. Smartt, A. Jerkstrand, C. Inserra, M. McCrum, R. Kotak, M. Fraser, et al. “Slowly fading super-luminous supernovae that are not pair-instability explosions.” Nature 502, no. 7471 (October 2013): 346–49. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12569.
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  - Lunnan, R., R. Chornock, E. Berger, D. Milisavljevic, M. Drout, N. E. Sanders, P. M. Challis, et al. “PS1-10bzj: A fast, hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova in a metal-poor host galaxy.” Astrophysical Journal 771, no. 2 (July 10, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/771/2/97.
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  - Chornock, R., E. Berger, A. Rest, D. Milisavljevic, R. Lunnan, R. J. Foley, A. M. Soderberg, et al. “PS1-10afx at z = 1.388: Pan-STARRS1 discovery of a new type of superluminous supernova.” Astrophysical Journal 767, no. 2 (April 20, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/162.
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  - Gezari, S., R. Chornock, A. Rest, M. E. Huber, K. Forster, E. Berger, P. J. Challis, et al. “An ultraviolet-optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core.” Nature 485, no. 7397 (May 2, 2012): 217–20. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10990.
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  - Narayan, G., R. J. Foley, E. Berger, M. T. Botticella, R. Chornock, M. E. Huber, A. Rest, et al. “Displaying the heterogeneity of the SN 2002cx-like subclass of type Ia supernovae with observations of the Pan-STARRS-1 discovered SN 2009ku.” Astrophysical Journal Letters 731, no. 1 PART II (April 10, 2011). https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/731/1/L11.
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  - Scolnic, D. M., A. G. Riess, M. E. Huber, A. Rest, C. W. Stubbs, and J. L. Tonry. “Optical cross-correlation filters: An economical approach for identifying SNe ia and estimating their redshifts.” Astrophysical Journal 706, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 94–107. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/706/1/94.
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  - Brout, Dillon, and Daniel Scolnic. “It's Dust: Solving the Mysteries of the Intrinsic Scatter and Host-Galaxy Dependence of Standardized Type Ia Supernova Brightnesses,” n.d.
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  - Capak, P., J. -. C. Cuillandre, F. Bernardeau, F. Castander, R. Bowler, C. Chang, C. Grillmair, et al. “Enhancing LSST Science with Euclid Synergy,” n.d.
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  - Chambers, K. C., E. A. Magnier, N. Metcalfe, H. A. Flewelling, M. E. Huber, C. Z. Waters, L. Denneau, et al. “The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys,” n.d.
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  - Collaboration, D. E. S., Tim Abbott, Michel Aguena, Alex Alarcon, Sahar Allam, Steve Allen, James Annis, et al. “Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundances and Weak Lensing,” n.d.
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  - Collaboration, The LSST Dark Energy Science, Rachel Mandelbaum, Tim Eifler, Renée Hložek, Thomas Collett, Eric Gawiser, Daniel Scolnic, et al. “The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Science Requirements Document,” n.d.
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  - D’Andrea, C. B., M. Smith, M. Sullivan, R. C. Nichol, R. C. Thomas, A. G. Kim, A. Möller, et al. “First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Survey Overview and Supernova Spectroscopy,” n.d.
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  - Eifler, Tim, Hironao Miyatake, Elisabeth Krause, Chen Heinrich, Vivian Miranda, Christopher Hirata, Jiachuan Xu, et al. “Cosmology with the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope -- Multi-Probe Strategies,” n.d.
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  - Foley, R. J., A. M. Koekemoer, D. N. Spergel, F. B. Bianco, P. Capak, L. Dai, O. Dore, et al. “LSST Observing Strategy White Paper: LSST Observations of WFIRST Deep Fields,” n.d.
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  - Foley, Ryan J., Joshua S. Bloom, S Bradley Cenko, Ryan Chornock, Georgios Dimitriadis, Olivier Dore, Alexei V. Filippenko, et al. “WFIRST: Enhancing Transient Science and Multi-Messenger Astronomy,” n.d.
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  - Herner, K., J. Annis, D. Brout, M. Soares-Santos, R. Kessler, M. Sako, R. Butler, et al. “Optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers with DECam during the first two LIGO/VIRGO observing runs,” n.d.
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  - Jones, D. O., D. M. Scolnic, R. J. Foley, A. Rest, R. Kessler, P. M. Challis, K. C. Chambers, et al. “The Foundation Supernova Survey: Measuring Cosmological Parameters with Supernovae from a Single Telescope,” n.d.
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  - Katebi, Reza, Ryan Chornock, Edo Berger, David O. Jones, Ragnhild Lunnan, Raffaella Margutti, Armin Rest, et al. “PS1-13cbe: The Rapid "Turn on" of a Seyfert 1,” n.d.
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  - Koekemoer, Anton M., R. J. Foley, D. N. Spergel, M. Bagley, R. Bezanson, F. B. Bianco, R. Bouwens, et al. “An Ultra Deep Field survey with WFIRST,” n.d.
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  - Lochner, Michelle, Daniel M. Scolnic, Humna Awan, Nicolas Regnault, Philippe Gris, Rachel Mandelbaum, Eric Gawiser, et al. “Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Wide-Fast-Deep Survey,” n.d.
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  - Margutti, R., P. Cowperthwaite, Z. Doctor, K. Mortensen, C. P. Pankow, O. Salafia, V. A. Villar, et al. “Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with LSST,” n.d.
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  - Riess, Adam G., Stefano Casertano, D’Arcy Kenworthy, Dan Scolnic, and Lucas Macri. “Seven Problems with the Claims Related to the Hubble Tension in arXiv:1810.02595,” n.d.
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  - Rose, B. M., D. Rubin, A. Cikota, S. E. Deustua, S. Dixon, A. Fruchter, D. O. Jones, A. G. Riess, and D. M. Scolnic. “Evidence for Cosmic Acceleration Is Robust to Observed Correlations between Type Ia Supernova Luminosity and Stellar Age.” The Astrophysical Journal 896, no. 1 (n.d.): L4–L4. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab94ad.
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  - Scolnic, D., M. Smith, A. Massiah, P. Wiseman, D. Brout, R. Kessler, T. M. Davis, et al. “Supernova Siblings: Assessing the Consistency of Properties of Type Ia Supernovae that Share the Same Parent Galaxies.” The Astrophysical Journal 896, no. 1 (n.d.): L13–L13. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab8735.
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  - Scolnic, Dan, Saul Perlmutter, Greg Aldering, Dillon Brout, Tamara Davis, Alex Filippenko, Ryan Foley, et al. “The Next Generation of Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae,” n.d.
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  - Scolnic, Daniel M., Michelle Lochner, Phillipe Gris, Nicolas Regnault, Renée Hložek, Greg Aldering, Tarek Allam Jr, et al. “Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Deep Drilling Fields and other Special Programs,” n.d.
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  - Wang, Yun, Mark Dickinson, Lynne Hillenbrand, Massimo Robberto, Lee Armus, Mario Ballardini, Robert Barkhouser, et al. “ATLAS Probe: Breakthrough Science of Galaxy Evolution, Cosmology, Milky Way, and the Solar System,” n.d.
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  - Wang, Yun, Rachel Bean, Peter Behroozi, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Ian Dell’antonio, Mark Dickinson, Olivier Dore, et al. “Illuminating the dark universe with a very high density galaxy redshift survey over a wide area,” n.d.
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- Conference Papers
  - Diehl, H. T., E. Neilsen, R. A. Gruendl, T. M. C. Abbott, S. Allam, O. Alvarez, J. Annis, et al. “The Dark Energy Survey and operations: Years 4 and 5.” In Proceedings of Spie the International Society for Optical Engineering, Vol. 10704, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312113.
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