We present 432 low-dispersion optical spectra of 32 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that also have well-calibrated light curves. The coverage ranges from 6 epochs to 36 epochs of spectroscopy. Most of the data were obtained with the 1.5m Tillinghast telescope at the F. L. Whipple Observatory with typical wavelength coverage of 3700-7400A and a resolution of ~7A. The earliest spectra are thirteen days before B-band maximum; two-thirds of the SNe were observed before maximum brightness. Coverage for some SNe continues almost to the nebular phase. The consistency of the method of observation and the technique of reduction makes this an ideal data set for studying the spectroscopic diversity of SNe Ia.
@article{arxiv.0803.1705,
title = {Optical Spectroscopy of Type Ia Supernovae},
author = {T. Matheson and R. P. Kirshner and P. Challis and S. Jha and P. M. Garnavich and P. Berlind and M. L. Calkins and S. Blondin and Z. Balog and A. E. Bragg and N. Caldwell and K. Dendy Concannon and E. E. Falco and G. J. M. Graves and J. P. Huchra and J. Kuraszkiewicz and J. A. Mader and A. Mahdavi and M. Phelps and K. Rines and I. Song and B. J. Wilkes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1705},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, 109 pages (including data table), 44 figures, full resolution figures at http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/matheson/Iaspec.ps.gz