New PDF release: Rates and progenitors of type Ia supernovae

By Wood-Vasey, William Michael; USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Division of High Energy Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.; National Science Foundation (U.S.).; United States. Dept. of Energy. Office

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If correlations are found with such secondary observables, then future high-redshift supernova studies will greatly benefit from the improved calibration possible from a better understanding of SN Ia properties. The calibration of these vital standardizable candles needs to be significantly improved to allow the next generation of large-scale missions, such as the SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) (Aldering et al. 2004) and the Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM), to explore the dark energy and expansion history of the Universe.

Models predicting a constant w = w0 , including those invoking a cosmological constant, are the easiest to test. 8. The SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS) (Pritchet & Collaboration 2004) is a part of the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Survey (The CFHTLS Supernova Program 2004) and will discover and study 2000 SNe Ia between 2003 and 2008. 0-m telescope to compile a data set of ∼ 500 SNe Ia by 2006. Both projects use 8-m class telescopes for spectroscopic confirmation and study. 15 magnitudes in the luminosity-distance indicator currently used for SNe Ia and the lack of well-observed nearby SNe Ia have become the central limitations in using SNe Ia to measure w.

3 Sky Coverage 8. Perform cross-checks. 9. Obtain confirmation image. 10. Obtain confirmation spectrum. 11. Report discovery. The sections that follow discuss the SNfactory’s implementation of these steps. In the sections below, the discussion of the processing steps will diverge a little from the order in which they are presented above. The discussions of the observation and image reduction steps will be combined because these processes are the same for both reference and search images. 3 Sky Coverage Using the Oschin and MSSS telescopes, the NEAT group takes many images of the night sky over a range of right ascension (RA) and declination (Dec).

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Rates and progenitors of type Ia supernovae by Wood-Vasey, William Michael; USDOE Director. Office of Science. Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics. Division of High Energy Physics; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.; National Science Foundation (U.S.).; United States. Dept. of Energy. Office


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