Next generation Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) surveys will yield vast numbers of photometric SN candidates, without the possibility of spectroscopic follow-up. Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species (BEAMS) is a robust statistical method developed to use all available data in statistical SN analysis, when one population is contaminated by interlopers. I am currently applying the BEAMS algorithm to the data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Supernova survey.

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