Optical searches can only detect supernovae with a limited amount of dust extinction. This is a severe limitation as most of the core-collapse SNe could explode inside dusty regions. We describe a few ongoing projects aimed at detecting dusty SNe at near-IR wavelengths both in ground-based and HST images and to study their properties.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0310210,
title = {The Infrared Supernova Rate},
author = {F. Mannucci and G. Cresci and R. Maiolino and M. Della Valle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0310210},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, IAU coll. 192 "Supernovae: 10 years of SN1993J", J.M. Marcaide and K.W. Weiler eds