Determining the Type, Redshift, and Phase of a Supernova Spectrum

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2006-12-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612512v1

AIPConf.Proc.924:312-321,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 7 figures. To appear in "The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Progenitors: Theory vs O

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2774875

We present an algorithm to identify the types of supernova spectra, and determine their redshift and phase. This algorithm, based on the correlation techniques of Tonry & Davis, is implemented in the SuperNova IDentification code (SNID). It is used by members of the ESSENCE project to determine whether a noisy spectrum of a high-redshift supernova is indeed of type Ia, as opposed to, e.g., type Ib/c. Furthermore, by comparing the correlation redshifts obtained using SNID with those determined from narrow lines in the supernova host galaxy spectrum, we show that accurate redshifts (with a typical error < 0.01) can be determined for SNe Ia for which a spectrum of the host galaxy is unavailable. Last, the phase of an input spectrum is determined with a typical accuracy of ~3 days.

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