The Next Generation of Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae

While Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are one of the most mature cosmological probes, the next era promises to be extremely exciting in the number of different ways SNe Ia are used to measure various cosmological parameters. Here we review the experiments in the 2020s that will yield orders of magnitudes more SNe Ia, and the new understandings and capabilities to constrain systematic uncertainties at a level to match these statistics. We then discuss five different cosmological probes with SNe Ia: the conventional Hubble diagram for measuring dark energy properties, the distance ladder for measuring the Hubble constant, peculiar velocities and weak lensing for measuring sigma8 and strong-lens measurements of H0 and other cosmological parameters. For each of these probes, we discuss the experiments that will provide the best measurements and also the SN Ia-related systematics that affect each one.

Armin Rest | Gautham Narayan | Anthony Challinor | Ningfeng Zhu | Srivatsan Sridhar | Christopher Stubbs | David O. Jones | Asantha Cooray | Saurabh Jha | Feng Shi | Saul Perlmutter | Gong-Bo Zhao | Jean-Paul Kneib | Aritoki Suzuki | Lyman Page | Giuseppe Puglisi | Mickael Rigault | Cora Dvorkin | Levon Pogosian | Nicolas Regnault | Arturo Avelino | Ryan E. Keeley | Suhail Dhawan | Georgios Dimitriadis | Masao Sako | Renee Hlozek | Massimiliano Lattanzi | Greg Aldering | Andrei Nomerotski | Yannick Copin | Marco Raveri | Peter J. Brown | W. M. Wood-Vasey | Adam Riess | Ryan Foley | Christophe Balland | Tamara Davis | Jacobo Asorey | Suvodip Mukherjee | Kaisey Mandel | J. Kneib | P. Brown | W. Wood-Vasey | Gong-Bo Zhao | A. Challinor | L. Page | A. Riess | S. Rodney | S. Jha | A. Suzuki | R. Kessler | M. Sako | D. Brout | C. Stubbs | S. Mukherjee | D. Scolnic | A. Rest | R. Foley | R. Hložek | R. Hounsell | T. Davis | A. Kim | D. Rubin | C. Rojas-Bravo | G. Narayan | G. Aldering | Y. Copin | J. Guy | S. Perlmutter | M. Rigault | A. Filippenko | K. Mandel | S. Dhawan | Yun Wang | N. Regnault | J. Asorey | C. Balland | Benjamin L'Huillier | A. Nomerotski | M. Lattanzi | P. Kelly | G. Dimitriadis | G. Puglisi | A. Cooray | Yuhsin Tsai | W. Handley | N. Zhu | C. Dvorkin | L. Pogosian | M. Raveri | P. Motloch | Julien Guy | Yun Wang | David Rubin | Will Handley | Pavel Motloch | Yu-Dai Tsai | Srivatsan Sridhar | Dan Scolnic | Dillon Brout | Alex Filippenko | Rebekah Hounsell | David Jones | Pat Kelly | Rick Kessler | Alex Kim | Steven Rodney | Justin Roberts-Pierel | Chetan Bavdhankar | Benjamin LHuillier | James Mertens | Cesar Rojas-Bravo | J. Roberts-Pierel | A. Avelino | F. Shi | J. Mertens | Chetan Bavdhankar | G. Zhao | P. Brown | R. Keeley | A. Filippenko

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