11:00 am–12:30 pm ERC 401
Time & location: Tuesday, July 30, at 11 am in ERC 401
Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/99144905501?pwd=6njdgr9cxUmd6fmqmqNvZ7J8umWNoF.1
Title: Strongly Lensed Supernovae: Implications for the Hubble Constant and transient astrophysics
Abstract: Strong gravitationally lensed supernovae are exciting laboratories for measuring cosmological parameters and studying supernovae in the high-redshift universe in detail. The "standard clocks" measure time-delay distances which are an independent route to precision constraints on the Hubble Constant. I will review some of our work on estimating the time-delays and extinction for the first strong lensed Type Ia supernova, iPTF16geu and SN Zwicky, the first discovery from the Zwicky Transient Facility. In this talk, I will also summarise some of my current work with SN Encore, a cluster lensed SNIa discovered by JWST and prospects for detecting these events with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory which will be online imminently.
