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Ray Carlberg
University of Toronto, Canada
& Gemini South Visiting Astronomer
November 12, 2009 at 12:00 pm
 

"Third-Year Results from the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)"
 

The third year SNLS data features nearly 250 supernova, better raw data, better measurement methods, a greatly improved calibration (that requires abandoning Vega), cross-calibration of the many new low redshift supernovae, inclusion of the few HST supernovae, and explicit accounting of the systematics at every level.  The implications for the Dark Energy parameter w will be presented.