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The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using repeated five-band (ugriz) imaging over an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joshua A. Frieman , B. Bassett , A. Becker , C. Choi , D. Cinabro , F. DeJongh , D. L. Depoy , B. Dilday , M. Doi , P. M. Garnavich , C. J. Hogan , J. Holtzman , M. Im , S. Jha , R. Kessler , K. Konishi , H. Lampeitl , J. Marriner , J. L. Marshall , D. McGinnis , G. Miknaitis , R. C. Nichol , J. L. Prieto , A. G. Riess , M. W. Richmond , R. Romani , M. Sako , D. P. Schneider , M. Smith , N. Takanashi , K. Tokita , K. van der Heyden , N. Yasuda , C. Zheng , J. Adelman-McCarthy , J. Annis , R. J. Assef , J. Barentine , R. Bender , R. D. Blandford , W. N. Boroski , M. Bremer , H. Brewington , C. A. Collins , A. Crotts , J. Dembicky , J. Eastman , A. Edge , E. Edmondson , E. Elson , M. E. Eyler , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , S. Frank , A. Goobar , T. Gueth , J. E. Gunn , M. Harvanek , U. Hopp , Y. Ihara , Ž. Ivezić , S. Kahn , J. Kaplan , S. Kent , W. Ketzeback , S. J. Kleinman , W. Kollatschny , R. G. Kron , J. Krzesiński , D. Lamenti , G. Leloudas , H. Lin , D. C. Long , J. Lucey , R. H. Lupton , E. Malanushenko , V. Malanushenko , R. J. McMillan , J. Mendez , C. W. Morgan , T. Morokuma , A. Nitta , L. Ostman , K. Pan , C. M. Rockosi , A. K. Romer , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , G. Saurage , K. Schlesinger , S. A. Snedden , J. Sollerman , C. Stoughton , M. Stritzinger , M. SubbaRao , D. Tucker , P. Vaisanen , L. C. Watson , S. Watters , J. C. Wheeler , B. Yanny , D. York

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey has identified a large number of new transient sources in a 300 sq. deg. region along the celestial equator during its first two seasons of a three-season campaign. Multi-band (ugriz) light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masao Sako , B. Bassett , A. Becker , D. Cinabro , F. DeJongh , D. L. Depoy , B. Dilday , M. Doi , J. A. Frieman , P. M. Garnavich , C. J. Hogan , J. Holtzman , S. Jha , R. Kessler , K. Konishi , H. Lampeitl , J. Marriner , G. Miknaitis , R. C. Nichol , J. L. Prieto , A. G. Riess , M. W. Richmond , R. Romani , D. P. Schneider , M. Smith , M. SubbaRao , N. Takanashi , K. Tokita , K. van der Heyden , N. Yasuda , C. Zheng , J. Barentine , H. Brewington , C. Choi , J. Dembicky , M. Harnavek , Y. Ihara , M. Im , W. Ketzeback , S. J. Kleinman , J. Krzesiński , D. C. Long , E. Malanushenko , V. Malanushenko , R. J. McMillan , T. Morokuma , A. Nitta , K. Pan , G. Saurage , S. A. Snedden

Spectroscopic detection of Type Ia Supernovae in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

We present the results of a novel new search of the first data-release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-DR1) for the spectra of supernovae. The use of large spectroscopic galaxy surveys offers the prospect of obtaining improved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Darren S. Madgwick , Paul Hewett , Daniel Mortlock , Lifan Wang

The Fall 2004 SDSS Supernova Survey

In preparation for the Supernova Survey of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) II, a proposed 3-year extension to the SDSS, we have conducted an early engineering and science run during the fall of 2004, which consisted of approximately 20…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masao Sako , Roger Romani , Josh Frieman , Jen Adelman-McCarthy , Andrew Becker , Fritz DeJongh , Ben Dilday , Juan Estrada , John Hendry , Jon Holtzman , Jared Kaplan , Rick Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , Gajus Miknaitis , Adam Riess , Douglas Tucker , J. Barentine , R. Blandford , H. Brewington , J. Dembicky , M. Harvanek , S. Hawley , C. Hogan , D. Johnston , S. Kahn , B. Ketzeback , S. Kleinman , J. Krzesinski , D. Lamenti , D. Long , R. McMillan , P. Newman , A. Nitta , R. Nichol , R. Scranton , E. Sheldon , S. Snedden , C. Stoughton , D. York , the SDSS Collaboration

Subaru Spectroscopy of SDSS-II Supernovae

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey discovered Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in an almost unexplored intermediate redshift range of $0.05 < z < 0.4$ and provided densely sampled multi-color light curves for SN…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-11 Kohki Konishi , Naoki Yasuda , Kouichi Tokita , Mamoru Doi , Yutaka Ihara , Tomoki Morokuma , Naohiro Takanashi , Jakob Nordin , John Marriner , Linda Östman , Michael Richmond , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , J. Craig Wheeler

First Cosmology Results Using Type Ia Supernovae From the Dark Energy Survey: Survey Overview and Supernova Spectroscopy

We present spectroscopy from the first three seasons of the Dark Energy Survey Supernova Program (DES-SN). We describe the supernova spectroscopic program in full: strategy, observations, data reduction, and classification. We have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 C. B. D'Andrea , M. Smith , M. Sullivan , R. C. Nichol , R. C. Thomas , A. G. Kim , A. Möller , M. Sako , F. J. Castander , A. V. Filippenko , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , S. González-Gaitán , E. Kasai , R. P. Kirshner , C. Lidman , D. Scolnic , D. Brout , T. M. Davis , R. R. Gupta , S. R. Hinton , R. Kessler , J. Lasker , E. Macaulay , R. C. Wolf , B. Zhang , J. Asorey , A. Avelino , B. A. Bassett , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , R. Casas , P. Challis , M. Childress , A. Clocchiatti , S. Crawford , K. Glazebrook , D. A. Goldstein , M. L. Graham , J. K. Hoormann , K. Kuehn , G. F. Lewis , K. S. Mandel , E. Morganson , D. Muthukrishna , P. Nugent , Y. -C. Pan , M. Pursiainen , R. Sharp , N. E. Sommer , E. Swann , B. E. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , P. Wiseman , W. Zheng , T. M. C. Abbott , J. Annis , S. Avila , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , C. E. Cunha , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , J. De Vicente , H. T. Diehl , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , B. Hoyle , D. J. James , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , W. Wester

NTT and NOT spectroscopy of SDSS-II supernovae

Context. The SDSS-II Supernova Survey, conducted between 2005 and 2007, was designed to detect a large number of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) around z~0.2, the redshift "gap" between low-z and high-z SN searches. The survey has provided…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 L. Ostman , J. Nordin , A. Goobar , R. Amanullah , M. Smith , J. Sollerman , V. Stanishev , M. D. Stritzinger , B. A. Bassett , T. M. Davis , E. Edmondson , J. A. Frieman , P. M. Garnavich , H. Lampeitl , G. Leloudas , J. Marriner , R. C. Nichol , K. Romer , M. Sako , D. P. Schneider , C. Zheng

The Rate of Type Ia Supernovae at z~0.2 from SDSS-I Overlapping Fields

In the course of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I), a large fraction of the surveyed area was observed more than once due to field tiling overlap, usually at different epochs. We utilize some of these data to perform a supernova (SN)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Assaf Horesh , Dovi Poznanski , Eran O. Ofek , Dan Maoz

Measurements of the Rate of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift z < ~0.3 from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

We present a measurement of the volumetric Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey. The adopted sample of supernovae (SNe) includes 516 SNe Ia at redshift z \lesssim 0.3,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 Benjamin Dilday , Mathew Smith , Bruce Bassett , Andrew Becker , Ralf Bender , Francisco Castander , David Cinabro , Alexei V. Filippenko , Joshua A. Frieman , Lluis Galbany , Peter M. Garnavich , Ariel Goobar , Ulrich Hopp , Yutaka Ihara , Saurabh W. Jha , Richard Kessler , Hubert Lampeitl , John Marriner , Ramon Miquel , Mercedes Molla , Robert C. Nichol , Jakob Nordin , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Donald P. Schneider , Jesper Sollerman , J. Craig Wheeler , Linda Ostman , Dmitry Bizyaev , Howard Brewington , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Dan Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Audrey Simmons , Stephanie Snedden

First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters

We present measurements of the Hubble diagram for 103 Type Ia supernovae (SNe) with redshifts 0.04 < z < 0.42, discovered during the first season (Fall 2005) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey. These data fill in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Richard Kessler , Andrew Becker , David Cinabro , Jake Vanderplas , Joshua A. Frieman , John Marriner , Tamara M Davis , Benjamin Dilday , Jon Holtzman , Saurabh Jha , Hubert Lampeitl , Masao Sako , Mathew Smith , Chen Zheng , Robert C. Nichol , Bruce Bassett , Ralf Bender , Darren L. Depoy , Mamoru Doi , Ed Elson , Alex V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Peter M. Garnavich , Ulrich Hopp , Yutaka Ihara , William Ketzeback , W. Kollatschny , Kohki Konishi , Jennifer L. Marshall , Russet J. McMillan , Gajus Miknaitis , Tomoki Morokuma , Edvard M"ortsell , Kaike Pan , Jose Luis Prieto , Michael W. Richmond , Adam G. Riess , Roger Romani , Donald P. Schneider , Jesper Sollerman , Naohiro Takanashi , Kouichi Tokita , Kurt van der Heyden , J. C. Wheeler , Naoki Yasuda , Donald York

Spectroscopic Determination of the Low Redshift Type Ia Supernova Rate from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Supernova rates are directly coupled to high mass stellar birth and evolution. As such, they are one of the few direct measures of the history of cosmic stellar evolution. In this paper we describe an probabilistic technique for identifying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. Simon Krughoff , Andrew Connolly , Joshua Frieman , Mark SubbaRao , Gary Kilper , Donald Schneider

A Template-Based Approach to the Photometric Classification of SN 1991bg-like Supernovae in the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

The use of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) to measure cosmological parameters has grown significantly over the past two decades. However, there exists a significant diversity in the SN Ia population that is not well understood. Over-luminous SN…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Daniel Perrefort , Yike Zhang , Lluís Galbany , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Santiago González-Gaitán

Berkeley Supernova Ia Program I: Observations, Data Reduction, and Spectroscopic Sample of 582 Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae

In this first paper in a series we present 1298 low-redshift (z\leq0.2) optical spectra of 582 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed from 1989 through 2008 as part of the Berkeley SN Ia Program (BSNIP). 584 spectra of 199 SNe Ia have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jeffrey M. Silverman , Ryan J. Foley , Alexei V. Filippenko , Mohan Ganeshalingam , Aaron J. Barth , Ryan Chornock , Christopher V. Griffith , Jason J. Kong , Nicholas Lee , Douglas C. Leonard , Thomas Matheson , Emily G. Miller , Thea N. Steele , Brian J. Barris , Joshua S. Bloom , Bethany E. Cobb , Alison L. Coil , Louis-Benoit Desroches , Elinor L. Gates , Luis C. Ho , Saurabh W. Jha , Michael T. Kandrashoff , Weidong Li , Kaisey S. Mandel , Maryam Modjaz , Matthew R. Moore , Robin E. Mostardi , Marina S. Papenkova , Sung Park , Daniel A. Perley , Dovi Poznanski , Cassie A. Reuter , James Scala , Franklin J. D. Serduke , Joseph C. Shields , Brandon J. Swift , John L. Tonry , Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Xiaofeng Wang , Diane S. Wong

SNLS Spectroscopy: Testing for Evolution in Type Ia Supernovae

Aims: We present a quantitative study of a new data set of high redshift Type Ia supernovae spectra, observed at the Gemini telescopes during the first 34 months of the Supernova Legacy Survey. During this time 123 supernovae candidates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. J. Bronder , I. M. Hook , P. Astier , D. Balam , C. Balland , S. Basa , R. G. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. A. Howell , J. D. Neill , R. Pain , K. Perrett , C. J. Pritchet , N. Regnault , M. Sullivan , S. Baumont , S. Fabbro , M. Filliol , S. Perlmutter , P. Ripoche

A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift $z\approx$ 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

We present a measurement of the rate of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first of three seasons of data from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. For this measurement, we include 17 SNe Ia at redshift $z\le0.12$. Assuming a flat cosmology with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-05 Benjamin Dilday , R. Kessler , J. A. Frieman , J. Holtzman , J. Marriner , G. Miknaitis , R. C. Nichol , R. Romani , M. Sako , B. Bassett , A. Becker , D. Cinabro , F. DeJongh , D. L. Depoy , M. Doi , P. M. Garnavich , C. J. Hogan , S. Jha , K. Konishi , H. Lampeitl , J. L. Marshall , D. McGinnis , J. L. Prieto , A. G. Riess , M. W. Richmond , D. P. Schneider , M. Smith , N. Takanashi , K. Tokita , K. van der Heyden , N. Yasuda , C. Zheng , J. Barentine , H. Brewington , C. Choi , A. Crotts , J. Dembicky , M. Harvanek , M. Im , W. Ketzeback , S. J. Kleinman , J. Krzesiński , D. C. Long , E. Malanushenko , V. Malanushenko , R. J. McMillan , A. Nitta , K. Pan , G. Saurage , S. A. Snedden , S. Watters , J. C. Wheeler , D. York

The First Data Release of CNIa0.02 -- A Complete Nearby (Redshift <0.02) Sample of Type Ia Supernova Light Curves

The CNIa0.02 project aims to collect a complete, nearby sample of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) light curves, and the SNe are volume-limited with host-galaxy redshifts z_host < 0.02. The main scientific goal is to infer the distributions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-29 Ping Chen , Subo Dong , C. S. Kochanek , K. Z. Stanek , R. S. Post , M. D. Stritzinger , J. L. Prieto , Alexei V. Filippenko , Juna A. Kollmeier , N. Elias-Rosa , Boaz Katz , Lina Tomasella , S. Bose , Chris Ashall , S. Benetti , D. Bersier , Joseph Brimacombe , Thomas G. Brink , P. Brown , David A. H. Buckley , Enrico Cappellaro , Grant W. Christie , Morgan Fraser , Mariusz Gromadzki , Thomas W. -S. Holoien , Shaoming Hu , Erkki Kankare , Robert Koff , P. Lundqvist , S. Mattila , P. A. Milne , Nidia Morrell , J. A. Munoz , Robert Mutel , Tim Natusch , Joel Nicolas , A. Pastorello , Simon Prentice , Tyler Roth , B. J. Shappee , Geoffrey Stone , Todd A. Thompson , Steven Villanueva , WeiKang Zheng

The Dark Energy Survey 5-year photometrically identified Type Ia Supernovae

As part of the cosmology analysis using Type Ia Supernovae (SN Ia) in the Dark Energy Survey (DES), we present photometrically identified SN Ia samples using multi-band light-curves and host galaxy redshifts. For this analysis, we use the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-21 A. Möller , M. Smith , M. Sako , M. Sullivan , M. Vincenzi , P. Wiseman , P. Armstrong , J. Asorey , D. Brout , D. Carollo , T. M. Davis , C. Frohmaier , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , L. Kelsey , R. Kessler , G. F. Lewis , C. Lidman , U. Malik , R. C. Nichol , D. Scolnic , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , E. Bertin , S. Bocquet , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , D. W. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , K. Herner , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. March , J. L. Marshall , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , R. Morgan , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga

Spectral properties of Type Ia supernovae up to z~0.3

Aims: Spectroscopic observations of Type Ia supernovae obtained at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) and the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT), in conjunction with the SDSS-II Supernova Survey, are analysed. We use spectral indicators…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Nordin , L. Ostman , A. Goobar , R. Amanullah , R. C. Nichol , M. Smith , J. Sollerman , B. A. Bassett , J. Frieman , P. M. Garnavich , G. Leloudas , M. Sako , D. P. Schneider

Host Galaxy Spectra and Consequences for SN Typing From The SDSS SN Survey

We present the spectroscopy from 5254 galaxies that hosted supernovae (SNe) or other transient events in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II). Obtained during SDSS-I, SDSS-II, and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Matthew D. Olmstead , Peter J. Brown , Masao Sako , Bruce Bassett , J. Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Howard Brewington , Heather Campbell , Chris B. D'Andrea , Kyle S. Dawson , Garrett L. Ebelke , Joshua A. Frieman , Lluís Galbany , Peter Garnavich , Ravi R. Gupta , Renee Hlozek , Saurabh W. Jha , Martin Kunz , Hubert Lampeitl , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , John Marriner , Ramon Miquel , Antonio D. Montero-Dorta , Robert C. Nichol , Daniel J. Oravetz , Kaike Pan , Donald P. Schneider , Audrey E. Simmons , Mathew Smith , Stephanie A. Snedden

Spectra of High-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae and a Comparison with their Low-Redshift Counterparts

We present spectra for 14 high-redshift (0.17 < z < 0.83) supernovae, which were discovered by the Supernova Cosmology Project as part of a campaign to measure cosmological parameters. The spectra are used to determine the redshift and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. M. Hook , D. A. Howell , G. Aldering , R. Amanullah , M. S. Burns , A. Conley , S. E. Deustua , R. Ellis , S. Fabbro , V. Fadeyev , G. Folatelli , G. Garavini , R. Gibbons , G. Goldhaber , A. Goobar , D. E. Groom , A. G. Kim , R. A. Knop , M. Kowalski , C. Lidman , S. Nobili , P. E. Nugent , R. Pain , C. R. Pennypacker , S. Perlmutter , P. Ruiz-Lapuente , G. Sainton , B. E. Schaefer , E. Smith , A. L. Spadafora , V. Stanishev , R. C. Thomas , N. A. Walton , L. Wang , W. M. Wood-Vasey