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Massive galaxy clusters at intermediate redshifts act as gravitational lenses that can magnify supernovae (SNe) occurring in background galaxies. We assess the possibility to use lensed SNe to put constraints on the mass models of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Teresa Riehm , Edvard Mörtsell , Ariel Goobar , Rahman Amanullah , Tomas Dahlén , Jakob Jönsson , Marceau Limousin , Kerstin Paech , Johan Richard

Based on the database of 56 supernovae (SNe) events discovered in 3838 galaxies of the southern hemisphere, we compute the rate of SNe of different types along the Hubble sequence normalized to the optical and near-infrared (NIR)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-23 A. A. Hakobyan , A. R. Petrosian , G. A. Mamon , B. McLean , D. Kunth , M. Turatto , E. Cappellaro , F. Mannucci , R. J. Allen , N. Panagia , M. Della Valle , G. V. Petrosyan

Strong lensing by galaxy clusters can be used to significantly expand the survey reach, thus allowing observation of magnified high-redshift supernovae that otherwise would remain undetected. Strong lensing can also provide multiple images…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-01 T. Petrushevska

We report the results of our ongoing search for extincted supernovae (SNe) at near-infrared wavelengths. We have monitored at 2.2 micron a sample of 46 Luminous Infrared Galaxies and detected 4 SNe. The number of detections is still small…

Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are widely used to measure the expansion of the Universe. To perform such measurements the luminosity and cosmological redshift ($z$) of the SNe Ia have to be determined. The uncertainty on $z$ includes an…

Intergalactic type-Ia supernovae (SNe-Ia) have been discovered recently in rich galaxy clusters, likely the descendants of an intergalactic stellar population found in recent years through a variety of tracers. We estimate the observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dan Maoz , Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

Using the sample of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cluster Supernova Survey and augmented with HST-observed SNe Ia in the GOODS fields, we search for correlations between the properties of SNe and…

Strong lensing by massive galaxy clusters can provide magnification of the flux and even multiple images of the galaxies that lie behind them. This phenomenon facilitates observations of high-redshift supernovae (SNe), that would otherwise…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 T. Petrushevska , A. Goobar , D. J. Lagattuta , R. Amanullah , L. Hangard , S. Fabbro , C. Lidman , K. Paech , J. Richard , J. P. Kneib

We present the supernova (SN) sample and Type-Ia SN (SN Ia) rates from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH). Using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), we…

This is the second paper of a series in which we present measurements of the Supernova (SN) rates from the SUDARE survey. In this paper, we study the trend of the SN rates with the intrinsic colours, the star formation activity and the mass…

While many studies have shown a correlation between properties of the light curves of Type Ia SN (SNe Ia) and properties of their host galaxies, it remains unclear what is driving these correlations. We introduce a new direct method to…

Fundamental mysteries remain regarding the physics of Type Ia supernovae (SNIa) and their stellar progenitors. We argue here that important clues to these questions may emerge by the identification of those SNIa that occur in extragalactic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric Pfahl , Evan Scannapieco , Lars Bildsten

We investigate the potential of using massive clusters as gravitational telescopes for searches and studies of supernovae of Type Ia and Type II in optical and near-infrared bands at central wavelengths in the interval 0.8-1.25 microns.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christofer Gunnarsson , Ariel Goobar

We describe the Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey (MENeaCS), designed to measure the cluster Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate in a sample of 57 X-ray selected galaxy clusters, with redshifts of 0.05 < z < 0.15. Utilizing our real time…

This is the first paper of a series in which we present new measurements of the observed rates of supernovae (SNe) in the local Universe, determined from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS). We have obtained 2.3 million…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jesse Leaman , Weidong Li , Ryan Chornock , Alexei V. Filippenko

Context.This is the first paper of a series aiming to determine the fractions and birth rates of various types of supernovae (SNe) in the local Universe. Aims. In this paper, we aim to construct a complete sample of SNe in the nearby…

We describe the Wise Observatory Optical Transient Search (WOOTS), a survey for supernovae (SNe) and other variable and transient objects in the fields of redshift 0.06-0.2 Abell galaxy clusters. We present the survey design and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avishay Gal-Yam , Dan Maoz , Puragra Guhathakurta , Alexei V. Filippenko

Distant Type Ia and II supernovae (SNe) can serve as valuable probes of the history of the cosmic expansion and star formation, and provide important information on their progenitor models. At present, however, there are few observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mark Sullivan , Richard Ellis , Peter Nugent , Ian Smail , Piero Madau