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OzDES multi-fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: first-year operation and results

OzDES is a five-year, 100-night, spectroscopic survey on the Anglo-Australian Telescope, whose primary aim is to measure redshifts of approximately 2,500 Type Ia supernovae host galaxies over the redshift range 0.1 < z < 1.2, and derive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Fang Yuan , C. Lidman , T. M. Davis , M. Childress , F. B. Abdalla , M. Banerji , E. Buckley-Geer , A. Carnero Rosell , D. Carollo , F. J. Castander , C. B. D'Andrea , H. T. Diehl , C. E Cunha , R. J. Foley , J. Frieman , K. Glazebrook , J. Gschwend , S. Hinton , S. Jouvel , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , A. L. King , K. Kuehn , S. Kuhlmann , G. F. Lewis , H. Lin , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , J. Mould , R. C. Nichol , R. P. Norris , C. R. O'Neill , F. Ostrovski , A. Papadopoulos , D. Parkinson , S. Reed , A. K. Romer , P. J. Rooney , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , R. Scalzo , B. P. Schmidt , D. Scolnic , N. Seymour , R. Sharp , F. Sobreira , M. Sullivan , R. C. Thomas , D. Tucker , S. A. Uddin , R. H. Wechsler , W. Wester , H. Wilcox , B. Zhang , T. Abbott , S. Allam , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Levy , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Covarrubias , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , K. Honscheid , D. James , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , J. Marshall , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , R. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , A. R. Walker

OzDES multi-object fibre spectroscopy for the Dark Energy Survey: Results and second data release

We present a description of the Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) and summarise the results from its six years of operations. Using the 2dF fibre positioner and AAOmega spectrograph on the 3.9-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope, OzDES has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-10 C. Lidman , B. E. Tucker , T. M. Davis , S. A. Uddin , J. Asorey , K. Bolejko , D. Brout , J. Calcino , D. Carollo , A. Carr , M. Childress , J. K. Hoormann , R. J. Foley , L. Galbany , K. Glazebrook , S. R. Hinton , R. Kessler , A. G. Kim , A. King , A. Kremin , K. Kuehn , D. Lagattuta , G. F. Lewis , E. Macaulay , U. Malik , M. March , P. Martini , A. Möller , D. Mudd , R. C. Nichol , F. Panther , D. Parkinson , M. Pursiainen , M. Sako , E. Swann , R. Scalzo , D. Scolnic , R. Sharp , M. Smith , N. E. Sommer , M. Sullivan , S. Webb , P. Wiseman , Z. Yu , F. Yuan , B. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , S. Avila , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , P. Doel , T. F. Eifler , S. Everett , P. Fosalba , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , W. G. Hartley , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , N. Kuropatkin , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson

MARZ: Manual and Automatic Redshifting Software

The Australian Dark Energy Survey (OzDES) is a 100-night spectroscopic survey underway on the Anglo-Australian Telescope using the fibre-fed 2-degree-field (2dF) spectrograph. We have developed a new redshifting application Marz with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-01 Samuel R. Hinton , Tamara M. Davis , Chris Lidman , Karl Glazebrook , Geraint F. Lewis

The JADES Transient Survey: Discovery and Classification of Supernovae in the JADES Deep Field

The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) is a multi-cycle JWST program that has taken among the deepest near-/mid-infrared images to date (down to $\sim$30 ABmag) over $\sim$25 arcmin$^2$ in the GOODS-S field in two sets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-29 Christa DeCoursey , Eiichi Egami , Justin D. R. Pierel , Fengwu Sun , Armin Rest , David A. Coulter , Michael Engesser , Matthew R. Siebert , Kevin N. Hainline , Benjamin D. Johnson , Andrew J. Bunker , Phillip A. Cargile , Stephane Charlot , Wenlei Chen , Mirko Curti , Shea DeFour-Remy , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Ori D. Fox , Suvi Gezari , Sebastian Gomez , Jacob Jencson , Bhavin A. Joshi , Sanvi Khairnar , Jianwei Lyu , Roberto Maiolino , Takashi J. Moriya , Robert M. Quimby , George H. Rieke , Marcia J. Rieke , Brant Robertson , Melissa Shahbandeh , Louis-Gregory Strolger , Sandro Tacchella , Qinan Wang , Christina C. Williams , Christopher N. A. Willmer , Chris Willott , Yossef Zenati

Supernova Simulations and Strategies For the Dark Energy Survey

We present an analysis of supernova light curves simulated for the upcoming Dark Energy Survey (DES) supernova search. The simulations employ a code suite that generates and fits realistic light curves in order to obtain distance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 J. P. Bernstein , R. Kessler , S. Kuhlmann , R. Biswas , E. Kovacs , G. Aldering , I. Crane , C. B. D'Andrea , D. A. Finley , J. A. Frieman , T. Hufford , M. J. Jarvis , A. G. Kim , J. Marriner , P. Mukherjee , R. C. Nichol , P. Nugent , D. Parkinson , R. R. R. Reis , M. Sako , H. Spinka , M. Sullivan

Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Deep Field Optical + Near-Infrared Images and Catalogue

We describe the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Deep Fields, a set of images and associated multi-wavelength catalogue ($ugrizJHKs$) built from Dark Energy Camera (DECam) and Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) data. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-17 W. G. Hartley , A. Choi , A. Amon , R. A. Gruendl , E. Sheldon , I. Harrison , G. M. Bernstein , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , B. Yanny , K. Eckert , H. T. Diehl , A. Alarcon , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , R. Buchs , S. Cantu , C. Conselice , J. Cordero , C. Davis , T. M. Davis , S. Dodelson , A. Drlica-Wagner , S. Everett , A. Ferté , D. Gruen , K. Honscheid , M. Jarvis , M. D. Johnson , N. Kokron , N. MacCrann , J. Myles , A. B. Pace , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , M. E. S. Pereira , A. A. Plazas , J. Prat , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , E. S. Rykoff , S. Samuroff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , F. Tarsitano , A. Tong , M. A. Troxel , Z. Vasquez , K. Wang , C. Zhou , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , J. DeRose , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , T. F. Eifler , J. Elvin-Poole , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , D. Huterer , D. J. James , S. Kent , E. Krause , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , E. Neilsen , R. L. C. Ogando , S. Pandey , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , T. N. Varga , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , R. D. Wilkinson , J. Zuntz

An Efficient Approach to Obtaining Large Numbers of Distant Supernova Host Galaxy Redshifts

We use the wide-field capabilities of the 2dF fibre positioner and the AAOmega spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) to obtain redshifts of galaxies that hosted supernovae during the first three years of the Supernova Legacy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Lidman , V. Ruhlmann-Kleider , M. Sullivan , J. Myzska , P. Dobbie , K. Glazebrook , J. Mould , P. Astier , C. Balland , M. Betoule , R. Carlberg , A. Conley , D. Fouchez , J. Guy , D. Hardin , I. Hook , D. A. Howell , R. Pain , N. Palanque-Delabrouille , K. Perrett , C. Pritchet , N. Regnault , J. Rich

JADES Data Release 4 -- Paper II: Data reduction, analysis and emission-line fluxes of the complete spectroscopic sample

We present the fourth data release of JADES, the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, providing deep spectroscopic observations in the two GOODS fields. A companion paper presents the target selection, spectroscopic redshifts and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 J. Scholtz , S. Carniani , E. Parlanti , F. D'Eugenio , E. Curtis-Lake , P. Jakobsen , A. J. Bunker , A. J. Cameron , S. Arribas , W. M. Baker , S. Charlot , J. Chevellard , C. Circosta , M. Curti , Q. Duan , D. J. Eisenstein , K. Hainline , Z. Ji , B. D. Johnson , G. C. Jones , N. Kumari , R. Maiolino , M. V. Maseda , M. Perna , P. G. Pérez-González , T. Rawle , M. Rieke , P. Rinaldi , B. Robertson , A. Saxena , I. Shivaei , M. S. Silcock , Y. Sun , B. Rodríguez Del Pino , S. Tacchella , H. Übler , G. Venturi , C. C. Williams , C. N. A. Willmer , C. Willott , J. Witstok

JADES Data Release 4 Paper I: Sample Selection, Observing Strategy and Redshifts of the complete spectroscopic sample

This paper accompanies Data Release 4 of the JWST Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), which presents the full NIRSpec spectroscopy of the survey. We provide spectra of 5190 targets across GOODS-North and GOODS-South (including the Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Emma Curtis-Lake , Alex J. Cameron , Andrew J. Bunker , Jan Scholtz , Stefano Carniani , Eleonora Parlanti , Francesco D'Eugenio , Peter Jakobsen , Christopher N. A. Willmer , Santiago Arribas , William M. Baker , Stéphane Charlot , Jacopo Chevallard , Chiara Circosta , Mirko Curti , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Kevin Hainline , Zhiyuan Ji , Benjamin D. Johnson , Gareth C. Jones , Roberto Maiolino , Michael V. Maseda , Pablo G. Pérez-González , Tim Rawle , Marcia Rieke , Pierluigi Rinaldi , Brant Robertson , Bruno Rodrígez Del Pino , Aayush Saxena , Irene Shivaei , Renske Smit , Sandro Tacchella , Hannah Übler , Giacomo Venturi , Christina C. Williams , Chris Willott , Qiao Duan

TiDES: The 4MOST Time Domain Extragalactic Survey

The Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) conducted on the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) will perform spectroscopic follow-up of extragalactic transients discovered in the era of the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-29 C. Frohmaier , M. Vincenzi , M. Sullivan , S. F. Hönig , M. Smith , H. Addison , T. Collett , G. Dimitriadis , R. S. Ellis , P. Gandhi , O. Graur , I. Hook , L. Kelsey , Y. L. Kim , C. Lidman , K. Maguire , L. Makrygianni , B. Martin , A. Möller , R. C. Nichol , M. Nicholl , P. Schady , B. D. Simmons , S. J. Smartt , E. Tempel , P. Wiseman , the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

DESI z >~ 5 Quasar Survey. I. A First Sample of 400 New Quasars at z ~ 4.7-6.6

We report the first results of a high-redshift ($z$ >~ 5) quasar survey using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). As a DESI secondary target program, this survey is designed to carry out a systematic search and investigation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-26 Jinyi Yang , Xiaohui Fan , Ansh Gupta , Adam Myers , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Feige Wang , Christophe Yèche , Jessica Nicole Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , David Alexander , David Brooks , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Arjun Dey , Govinda Dhungana , Kevin Fanning , Andreu Font-Ribera , Satya Gontcho , Julien Guy , Klaus Honscheid , Stephanie Juneau , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Laurent Le Guillou , Michael Levi , Christophe Magneville , Paul Martini , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Jundan Nie , Will Percival , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Edward Schlafly , Gregory Tarlé , Mariana Vargas Magana , Benjamin Alan Weaver , Risa Wechsler , Rongpu Zhou , Zhimin Zhou , Hu Zou

Trans-Neptunian objects found in the first four years of the Dark Energy Survey

We present a catalog of 316 trans-Neptunian bodies detected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). These objects include 245 discoveries by DES (139 not previously published) detected in $\approx 60,000$ exposures from the first four seasons of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Pedro H. Bernardinelli , Gary M. Bernstein , Masao Sako , Tongtian Liu , William R. Saunders , Tali Khain , Hsing Wen Lin , David W. Gerdes , Dillon Brout , Fred C. Adams , Matthew Belyakov , Aditya Inada Somasundaram , Lakshay Sharma , Jennifer Locke , Kyle Franson , Juliette C. Becker , Kevin Napier , Larissa Markwardt , James Annis , T. M. C. Abbott , S. Avila , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , L. N. da Costa , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , P. Doel , S. Everett , B. Flaugher , J. García-Bellido , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , D. L. Hollowood , D. J. James , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , E. Krause , N. Kuropatkin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , R. Miquel , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , A. K. Romer , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , A. R. Walker , W. Wester , Y. Zhang

The Dark Energy Survey: more than dark energy - an overview

This overview article describes the legacy prospect and discovery potential of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) beyond cosmological studies, illustrating it with examples from the DES early data. DES is using a wide-field camera (DECam) on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Dark Energy Survey Collaboration , T. Abbott , F. B. Abdalla , J. Aleksic , S. Allam , A. Amara , D. Bacon , E. Balbinot , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Levy , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , J. Blazek , C. Bonnett , S. Bridle , D. Brooks , R. J. Brunner , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , G. B. Caminha , D. Capozzi , J. Carlsen , A. Carnero-Rosell , M. Carollo , M. Carrasco-Kind , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , L. Clerkin , T. Collett , C. Conselice , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , T. M. Davis , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , S. Dodelson , P. Doel , A. Drlica-Wagner , J. Estrada , J. Etherington , A. E. Evrard , J. Fabbri , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , R. J. Foley , P. Rosalba , J. Frieman , J. Garcia-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , P. Guarnieri , G. Gutierrez , W. Hartley , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , S. Jouvel , R. Kessler , A. King , D. Kirk , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. Manera , C. Maraston , J. L. Marshall , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , P. Melchior , A. Merson , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , X. Morice-Atkinson , K. Naidoo , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , B. Nord , R. Ogando , F. Ostrovski , A. Palmese , A. Papadopoulos , H. Peiris , J. Peoples , W. J. Percival , A. A. Plazas , S. L. Reed , A. Refregier , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , A. Ross , E. Rozo , E. S. Rykoff , I. Sadeh , M. Sako , C. Sanchez , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , M. Soumagnac , E. Suchyta , M. Sullivan , M. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , D. Tucker , J. D. Vieira , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , W. Wester , L. Whiteway , H. Wilcox , B. Yanny , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz

The Dark Energy Survey 5-year photometrically classified type Ia supernovae without host-galaxy redshifts

Current and future Type Ia Supernova (SN Ia) surveys will need to adopt new approaches to classifying SNe and obtaining their redshifts without spectra if they wish to reach their full potential. We present here a novel approach that uses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 A. Möller , P. Wiseman , M. Smith , C. Lidman , T. M. Davis , R. Kessler , M. Sako , M. Sullivan , L. Galbany , J. Lee , R. C. Nichol , B. O. Sánchez , M. Vincenzi , B. E. Tucker , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , O. Alves , F. Andrade-Oliveira , D. Bacon , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , S. Everett , I. Ferrero , D. Friedel , J. Frieman , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , G. Giannini , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , K. Honscheid , D. J. James , K. Kuehn , O. Lahav , S. Lee , J. L. Marshall , J. Mena-Fernández , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. Myles , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas Malagón , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , D. Sanchez Cid , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. L. Tucker , A. R. Walker , N. Weaverdyck , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira

The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: Rest-Frame Optical Spectroscopy for ~1500 H-Selected Galaxies at 1.37 < z < 3.8

In this paper we present the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey. The MOSDEF survey aims to obtain moderate-resolution (R=3000-3650) rest-frame optical spectra (~3700-7000 Angstrom) for ~1500 galaxies at 1.37<z<3.80 in three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Mariska Kriek , Alice E. Shapley , Naveen A. Reddy , Brian Siana , Alison L. Coil , Bahram Mobasher , William R. Freeman , Laura de Groot , Sedona H. Price , Ryan Sanders , Irene Shivaei , Gabriel B. Brammer , Ivelina G. Momcheva , Rosalind E. Skelton , Pieter G. van Dokkum , Katherine E. Whitaker , James Aird , Mojegan Azadi , Marc Kassis , James S. Bullock , Charlie Conroy , Romeel Dave , Dusan Keres , Mark Krumholz

The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release

Precise measurements of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at low redshifts ($z$) serve as one of the most viable keys to unlocking our understanding of cosmic expansion, isotropy, and growth of structure. The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Nora F. Sherman , Maria Acevedo , Dillon Brout , Bailey Martin , Daniel Scolnic , Dingyuan Cao , Christopher Lidman , Noor Ali , Patrick Armstrong , K. Auchett , Rebecca C. Chen , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Peter S. Ferguson , Kenneth Herner , Gautham Narayan , Erik R. Peterson , Liana Rauf , Armin Rest , Adam G. Riess , Masao Sako , Brian Schmidt , Xianzhe TZ Tang , Brad E. Tucker

The MOST Hosts Survey: spectroscopic observation of the host galaxies of ~40,000 transients using DESI

We present the MOST Hosts survey (Multi-Object Spectroscopy of Transient Hosts). The survey is planned to run throughout the five years of operation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and will generate a spectroscopic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-08 Maayane T. Soumagnac , Peter Nugent , Robert A. Knop , Anna Y. Q. Ho , William Hohensee , Autumn Awbrey , Alexis Andersen , Greg Aldering , Matan Ventura , Jessica N. Aguilar , Steven Ahlen , Segev Y. Benzvi , David Brooks , Dillon Brout , Todd Claybaugh , Tamara M. Davis , Kyle Dawson , Axel de la Macorra , Arjun Dey , Biprateep Dey , Peter Doel , Kelly A. Douglass , Jaime E. Forero-Romero , Enrique Gaztanaga , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , Or Graur , Julien Guy , ChangHoon Hahn , Klaus Honscheid , Cullan Howlett , Alex G. Kim , Theodore Kisner , Anthony Kremin , Andrew Lambert , Martin Landriau , Dustin Lang , Laurent Le Guillou , Marc Manera , Aaron Meisner , Ramon Miquel , John Moustakas , Adam D. Myers , Jundan Nie , Antonella Palmese , David Parkinson , Claire Poppett , Francisco Prada , Fei Qin , Mehdi Rezaie , Graziano Rossi , Eusebio Sanchez , David D. Schlegel , Michael Schubnell , Joseph H. Silber , Gregory Tarle , Benjamin A. Weaver , Zhimin Zhou

First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band light curves of supernovae in the redshift range z = 0.05 -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chen Zheng , Roger W. Romani , Masao Sako , John Marriner , Bruce Bassett , Andrew Becker , Changsu Choi , David Cinabro , Fritz DeJongh , Darren L. Depoy , Ben Dilday , Mamoru Doi , Joshua A. Frieman , Peter M. Garnavich , Craig J. Hogan , Jon Holtzman , Myungshin Im , Saurabh Jha , Richard Kessler , Kohki Konishi , Hubert Lampeitl , Jennifer L. Marshall , David McGinnis , Gajus Miknaitis , Robert C. Nichol , Jose Luis Prieto , Adam G. Riess , Michael W. Richmond , Donald P. Schneider , Mathew Smith , Naohiro Takanashi , Kouichi Tokita , Kurt van der Heyden , Naoki Yasuda , Roberto J. Assef , John Barentine , Ralf Bender , Roger D. Blandford , Malcolm Bremer , Howard Brewington , Chris A. Collins , Arlin Crotts , Jack Dembicky , Jason Eastman , Alastair Edge , Ed Elson , Michael E. Eyler , Alexei V. Filippenko , Ryan J. Foley , Stephan Frank , Ariel Goobar , Michael Harvanek , Ulrich Hopp , Yutaka Ihara , Steven Kahn , William Ketzeback , Scott J. Kleinman , Wolfram Kollatschny , Jurek Krzesiński , Giorgos Leloudas , Daniel C. Long , John Lucey , Elena Malanushenko , Viktor Malanushenko , Russet J. McMillan , Christopher W. Morgan , Tomoki Morokuma , Atsuko Nitta , Linda Ostman , Kaike Pan , A. Kathy Romer , Gabrelle Saurage , Katie Schlesinger , Stephanie A. Snedden , Jesper Sollerman , Maximilian Stritzinger , Linda C. Watson , Shannon Watters , J. Craig Wheeler , Donald York

Detectability of High-Redshift Superluminous Supernovae with Upcoming Optical and Near-Infrared Surveys

Observations of high-redshift supernovae (SNe) open a novel opportunity to study the massive star population in the early Universe. We study the detectability of superluminous SNe with upcoming optical and near-infrared (NIR) surveys. Our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Masaomi Tanaka , Takashi J. Moriya , Naoki Yoshida , Ken'ichi Nomoto

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