A strategy for finding gravitationally-lensed distant supernovae

Details A strategy for finding gravitationally-lensed distant supernovae A strategy for finding gravitationally-lensed distant supernovae

2000-07-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0007228v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 319 (2000) 549

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, including 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Minor textual changes in revised version

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03875.x

Distant Type Ia and II supernovae (SNe) can serve as valuable probes of the history of the cosmic expansion and star formation, and provide important information on their progenitor models. At present, however, there are few observational constraints on the abundance of SNe at high redshifts. A major science driver for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST) is the study of such very distant supernovae. In this paper we discuss strategies for finding and counting distant SNe by using repeat imaging of super-critical intermediate redshift clusters whose mass distributions are well-constrained via modelling of strongly-lensed features. For a variety of different models for the star formation history and supernova progenitors, we estimate the likelihood of detecting lensed SNe as a function of their redshift. In the case of a survey conducted with HST, we predict a high probability of seeing a supernova in a single return visit with either WFPC-2 or ACS, and a much higher probability of detecting examples with z>1 in the lensed case. Most events would represent magnified SNe II at z~1, and a fraction will be more distant examples. We discuss various ways to classify such events using ground-based infrared photometry. We demonstrate an application of the method using the HST archival data and discuss the case of a possible event found in the rich cluster AC 114 (z=0.31).

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