The Nearby Supernova Factory

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...20915016w&link_type=abstract

2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #150.16; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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The Nearby Supernova Factory is an international project to discover and study nearby thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae. The search of targets in the redshift range 0.03 < z < 0.08 is based on data from the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program and the Palomar Consortium QUEST camera program at Mt. Palomar. This produces a sample of SNe that is not biased against low-luminosity, low-metallicity hosts. Follow-up observations are performed with the dedicated Supernova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) at the University of Hawaii 2.2 meter telescope at Mauna Kea. The goal is to acquire a large and homogeneous spectro-photometric dataset covering the extended optical range (320-1000 nm), and spanning the full life-time of the explosions. This will allow detailed studies of the local Hubble diagram, the SNe Ia physics, the SNe-host galaxy correlations, and will serve as an unprecedented nearby benchmark for the high-z cosmological studies to come.

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