Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To Appear in "The Future of Photometric, Spectrophotometric and Polarimetric Standardization" Conference Proceedings, C. Sterk
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The 5-year project Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) delivers $\sim 100$ Type-Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) per year, in the redshift range $0.3 < z < 1.0$, with well-sampled $g'r'i'z'$ lightcurves. The SNLS Collaboration uses the 1 deg$^2$ Megacam imager (36 $2048 \times 4612$ thinned CCDs) mounted on the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) to observe four fields around the sky, in four filters. The primary goal of the project is to measure the dark energy equation of state with a final statistical precision of $\pm 0.05$. We have shown, using the first year dataset that the calibration uncertainties are currently the dominant contribution to the systematic error budget. The calibration of the SNLS dataset is challenging in several aspects. First, Megacam is a wide-field imager, and only a handful of its 36 CCDs can be directly calibrated using standard star observations. Second, measuring the rest-frame $B$-band luminosity of SNe Ia over the $0.3
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