The Nearby Supernova Factory

✍ Scribed by Y. Copin; N. Blanc; S. Bongard; E. Gangler; L. Saugé; G. Smadja; P. Antilogus; G. Garavini; S. Gilles; R. Pain; G. Aldering; S. Bailey; B.C. Lee; S. Loken; P. Nugent; S. Perlmutter; R. Scalzo; R.C. Thomas; L. Wang; B.A. Weaver; E. Pécontal; R. Kessler; C. Baltay; D. Rabinowitz; A. Bauer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 289 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1387-6473
• DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2006.02.035

✦ Synopsis

The Nearby Supernova Factory is an international project to discover and study nearby thermonuclear (type Ia) supernovae. The unbiased search of targets in the 0.03 < z < 0.08 range is based upon the NEAT/QUEST programme, and follow-up observations are performed with the dedicated integral field spectrograph SNIFS. The goal is to acquire a large and homogeneous spectro-photometric dataset covering the extended optical range (320-1000 nm), and spanning the full life-time of the explosions. This will allow detailed studies of the local Hubble diagram, the SNe Ia physics, the SNe-host galaxy correlations, and will serve as an unprecedented nearby benchmark for the high-z cosmological studies to come.