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The ANDICAM-SOFI Near-infrared and Optical type Ia Supernova (ASNOS) sample: Description and data release

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-03-04 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) provide the most robust means of measuring extragalactic distances. While most of the effort has focused on increasing the number of SNe Ia observed in the optical, near-infrared (NIR) observations remain scarce despite their advantages, that is, reduced dust extinction and a more intrinsic standard candle behavior, requiring little to no empirical corrections. Here, we present ASNOS (ANDICAM-SOFI Near-infrared and Optical type Ia Supernova), a dataset with sample size of 1,482 epochs in the BVRIYJHBVRIYJH filters from the ANDICAM instrument on the 1.3-meter SMARTS telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, along with 125 JHKJHK epochs from the SOFI instrument on the 3.58-meter New Technology Telescope on the La Silla Observatory. Additionally, we incorporate optical forced photometry from the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. The sample comprises 41 SNe Ia in total, including 29 normal events, eight 1991T-like objects, and four peculiar subtypes, all located at redshifts z<0.085z < 0.085. This paper provides a detailed overview of the ASNOS sample selection, data reduction, SN photometry, host-galaxy spectral energy distribution construction, both global and local, and SN light-curve fitting using three methods: SALT3-NIR, SNooPy, and BayeSN. A companion paper will present the cosmological analysis.

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@article{arxiv.2512.03695,
  title  = {The ANDICAM-SOFI Near-infrared and Optical type Ia Supernova (ASNOS) sample: Description and data release},
  author = {Kim Phan and Lluís Galbany and Tomás E. Müller-Bravo and Subhash Bose and Christopher R. Burns and Maximilian D. Stritzinger and Camilla T. G. Sørensen and Chris Ashall and Francisco J. Castander and Cristina Jiménez Palau and Joel Johansson and Joseph P. Anderson and Ken. C. Chambers and Mariusz Gromadzki and Priscila J. Pessi and Ting-Wan Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.03695},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Accepted in A&A