Saturday, June 4, 2011

Day 8

Day 8 of blog: wrote up why I didn't blog day 6 or 7 at Moscow airport.  Boarding to Seoul should begin soon, and I won't have time to blog for the rest of the day...


http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0307
The discovery and classification of 16 supernovae at high redshifts in ELAIS-S1: the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey II  [SVISS II]
Melinder, Dahlen, Mencia Trinchant, Östlin, Mattila, Sollerman, Fransson, Hayes, Nasoudi-Shoar


SNe are used to study: (i) cosmology via SNIa, (ii) SFR from core-collapse SNe, (iii) SNe connection to their host galaxies.  SVISS is a multi-band imaging survey aimed to detect SNe at z~0.5 and derive two kinds (thermonuclear and core-collapse) SNe rates at high z.  This paper presents photometric classification of the two types.  Difference imaging is used to detect SNe; combine automatic and manual source detection to minimize spurious detections.


Photometry found for variable sources, simulation used to estimate errors.  Lightcurves typed, and MC used to estimate misclassification rate.  Misclassification ~5%, but vary with redshift and type.  Mean z of SNe is 0.58.  Also found an instability SNe.

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