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

Joshua A. Frieman
(
)
,
Bruce Bassett
(
- Cape Town U. and
- South African Astron. Observ.
)
,
Andrew Becker
(
- Washington U., Seattle, Astron. Dept.
)
,
Changsu Choi
(
- Seoul Natl. U.
)
,
David Cinabro
(
- Wayne State U.
)

Aug, 2007

24 pages

Published in:

Astron.J. 135 (2008) 338-347

e-Print:

0708.2749 [astro-ph]

DOI:

10.1088/0004-6256/135/1/338

Report number:

FERMILAB-PUB-07-476-A,
SLAC-PUB-12780

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Abstract: (arXiv)

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 area of 300 sq. deg. The survey region is a stripe 2.5 degrees wide centered on the celestial equator in the Southern Galactic Cap that has been imaged numerous times in earlier years, enabling construction of a deep reference image for discovery of new objects. Supernova imaging observations are being acquired between 1 September and 30 November of 2005-7. During the first two seasons, each region was imaged on average every five nights. Spectroscopic follow-up observations to determine supernova type and redshift are carried out on a large number of telescopes. In its first two three-month seasons, the survey has discovered and measured light curves for 327 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia, 30 probable SNe Ia, 14 confirmed SNe Ib/c, 32 confirmed SNe II, plus a large number of photometrically identified SNe Ia, 94 of which have host-galaxy spectra taken so far. This paper provides an overview of the project and briefly describes the observations completed during the first two seasons of operation.

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