Kiso Supernova Survey (KISS): Survey Strategy
Abstract
The Kiso Supernova Survey (KISS) is a high-cadence optical wide-field supernova (SN) survey. The primary goal of the survey is to catch the very early light of a SN, during the shock breakout phase. Detection of SN shock breakouts combined with multi-band photometry obtained with other facilities would provide detailed physical information on the progenitor stars of SNe. The survey is performed using a 2.2x2.2 deg field-of-view instrument on the 1.05-m Kiso Schmidt telescope, the Kiso Wide Field Camera (KWFC). We take a three-minute exposure in g-band once every hour in our survey, reaching magnitude g~20-21. About 100 nights of telescope time per year have been spent on the survey since April 2012. The number of the shock breakout detections is estimated to be of order of 1 during our 3-year project. This paper summarizes the KISS project including the KWFC observing setup, the survey strategy, the data reduction system, and CBET-reported SNe discovered so far by KISS.
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@article{arxiv.1409.1308,
title = {Kiso Supernova Survey (KISS): Survey Strategy},
author = {Tomoki Morokuma and Nozomu Tominaga and Masaomi Tanaka and Kensho Mori and Emiko Matsumoto and Yuki Kikuchi and Takumi Shibata and Shigeyuki Sako and Tsutomu Aoki and Mamoru Doi and Naoto Kobayashi and Hiroyuki Maehara and Noriyuki Matsunaga and Hiroyuki Mito and Takashi Miyata and Yoshikazu Nakada and Takao Soyano and Ken'ichi Tarusawa and Satoshi Miyazaki and Fumiaki Nakata and Norio Okada and Yuki Sarugaku and Michael W. Richmond and Hiroshi Akitaya and Greg Aldering and Ko Arimatsu and Carlos Contreras and Takashi Horiuchi and Eric Y. Hsiao and Ryosuke Itoh and Ikuru Iwata and Koji and S. Kawabata and Nobuyuki Kawai and Yutaro Kitagawa and Mitsuru Kokubo and Daisuke Kuroda and Paolo and Mazzali and Toru Misawa and Yuki Moritani and Nidia Morrell and Rina Okamoto and Nikolay Pavlyuk and Mark M. Phillips and Elena Pian and Devendra Sahu and Yoshihiko Saito and Kei Sano and Maximilian D. Stritzinger and Yutaro Tachibana and Francesco Taddia and Katsutoshi Takaki and Ken Tateuchi and Akihiko Tomita and Dmitry Tsvetkov and Takahiro Ui and Nobuharu Ukita and Yuji Urata and Emma S. Walker and Taketoshi Yoshii},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.1308},
year = {2015}
}
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13 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ) in press