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This is a brief sketch of the use of supernovae to measure cosmological parameters. It traces the early work, the events surrounding the discovery and verification of cosmic acceleration using SN Ia, and the efforts today to make sound…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-05 Robert P. Kirshner

Supernova 2001ig in NGC 7424 has been observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array at ~2 week intervals since its discovery, making this the best-studied Type IIb radio supernova since SN 1993J. We present radio light curves for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. D. Ryder , E. Sadler , R. Subrahmanyan , K. W. Weiler , N. Panagia , C. Stockdale

Observations of the radio remnant of Supernova 1987A using the Australia Telescope Compact Array in the 12-mm band on 2003 July 31 (day 6002.7 after the explosion) give the first fully resolved radio image of the supernova remnant. The…

Supernovae and their remnants are believed to be prodigious sources of Galactic cosmic rays and interstellar dust. Understanding the mechanisms behind their surprisingly high production rate is helped by the study of nearby young supernova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 L. Staveley-Smith , T. M. Potter , G. Zanardo , B. M. Gaensler , C. -Y. Ng

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array remains the largest mm radio interferometer observatory world-wide. It is now conducting its 11th observing cycle. In our previous paper presented at this conference series in 2020, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-09 Dirk Petry , María Díaz Trigo , Rüdiger Kneissl , Ignacio Toledo , Atsushi Miyazaki , Toshinobu Takagi , Ashley Barnes , Francesca Bonanomi

With SKA precursor and pathfinder operations in full swing, radio and (sub-)mm astronomy is entering the era of super big data. The big questions is how to make (sub-)mm and radio data available to the astronomical community, preferably…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 K. A. Lutz , J. Dempsey , Y. G. Grange , M. Kettenis , M. Lacy , C. Schollar

The feasibility of using data from the NASA STEREO mission for variable star and asteroseismology studies has been examined. A data analysis pipeline has been developed that is able to apply selected algorithms to the entire database of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 K. T. Wraight , Glenn J. White , D. Bewsher , A. J. Norton

A quick look at research and development in astronomy shows that we live in exciting times. Exoplanetary systems, supernovae, and merging binary black holes were far out of reach for observers two decades ago and now such phenomena are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 Peter Nemeth

The next decade will feature a growing number of massive ground-based photometric, spectroscopic, and time-domain surveys, including those produced by DECam, DESI, and LSST. The NOAO Data Lab was launched in 2017 to enable efficient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-05 Knut Olsen , Adam Bolton , Stephanie Juneau , Robert Nikutta , Dara Norman , David Nidever , Stephen Ridgway , Adam Scott , Benjamin Weaver

Telescope bibliographies are integral parts of observing facilities. They are used to associate the published literature with archived observational data, to measure an observatory's scientific output through publication and citation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Silvia Meakins , Uta Grothkopf , Marsha J. Bishop , Felix Stoehr , Ken Tatematsu

A tremendous amount of radiation is emitted by the Interstellar Medium in the mid- and far-infrared (3-500 {\mu}m) that represents the majority of the light emitted by a galaxy. In this article we motivate ISM studies in the infrared and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Bernhard Schulz , Margaret Meixner

New generational very-high-energy telescope arrays have been detecting more than 120 TeV {\gamma}-ray sources. Multi-wavelength observations on these Gamma-ray sources have proven to be robust in shedding light on their nature. The coming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-04 Wenwu Tian , Jianli Zhang

We study 8 supernovae discovered as part of the International Time Programme (ITP) project ``Omega and Lambda from Supernovae and the Physics of Supernova Explosions'' at the European Northern Observatory (ENO). The goal of the project is…

The past ten years have seen a tremendous increase in the number of Type Ia supernovae discovered and in the quality of the basic data presented. The cosmological results based on distances to Type Ia events have been spectacular, leading…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nicholas B. Suntzeff

Supernovae play an integral role in the feedback of processed material into the ISMof galaxies and are responsible for most of the chemical enrichment of the universe. The rate of supernovae can also reveal the star formation histories.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. J. F. Rosenberg , P. P. van der Werf , F. P. Israel

The recent discovery of electromagnetic signals in coincidence with gravitational waves from neutron-star mergers has solidified the importance of multimessenger campaigns for studying the most energetic astrophysical events. Pioneering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Colin Adams , Imre Bartos , K. Rainer Corley , Szabolcs Márka , Zsuzsanna Márka , Doğa Veske

After highlighting the principle and power of asteroseismology for stellar physics, we briefly emphasize some recent progress in this research for various types of stars. We give an overview of high-precision high duty-cycle space…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Conny Aerts

The Wide-Field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) is a new 1 $\text{deg}^2$ seeing-limited time-domain survey instrument designed for dedicated near-infrared follow-up of kilonovae from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black…

The main aim of this paper is to introduce the most important observables that help us to investigate stellar dynamos and compare those to the modeling results. We give an overview of the available observational methods and data processing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-27 Zsolt Kovari , Katalin Olah

Recent all-sky and large-area astronomical surveys and their catalogued data over the whole range of electromagnetic spectrum are reviewed, from Gamma-ray to radio, such as Fermi-GLAST and INTEGRAL in Gamma-ray, ROSAT, XMM and Chandra in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 A. M. Mickaelian