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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
The Hubble space telescope cluster supernova survey. VI. the volumetric type Ia supernova rate in high-redshift galaxy clusters
Astrophysical Journal, Volume 745, No. 1, Article 31, Year 2012
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We present a measurement of the volumetric Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) rate out to z ≃ 1.6 from the Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. In observations spanning 189 orbits with the Advanced Camera for Surveys we discovered 29 SNe, of which approximately 20 are SNe Ia. Twelve of these SNe Ia are located in the foregrounds and backgrounds of the clusters targeted in the survey. Using these new data, we derive the volumetric SN Ia rate in four broad redshift bins, finding results consistent with previous measurements at z ≳ 1 and strengthening the case for an SN Ia rate that is ≳ 0.6 × 10-4 h 3 70yr-1Mpc-3 at z 1 and flattening out at higher redshift. We provide SN candidates and efficiency calculations in a form that makes it easy to rebin and combine these results with other measurements for increased statistics. Finally, we compare the assumptions about host-galaxy dust extinction used in different high-redshift rate measurements, finding that different assumptions may induce significant systematic differences between measurements. © 2012. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Barbary, Kyle
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
United States, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Amanullah, Rahman
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Sweden, Stockholm
Oskar Klein Centre
Brodwin, Mark
United States, Cambridge
Harvard-smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dawson, Kyle S.
United States, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
United States, Salt Lake City
The University of Utah
Doi, Mamoru
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Eisenhardt, Peter R.M.
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Faccioli, Lorenzo
United States, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fadeyev, Vitaliy
United States, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
Fruchter, Andrew S.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Gilbank, David G.
Canada, Waterloo
University of Waterloo
Gladders, Michael D.
United States, Chicago
The University of Chicago
Goobar, Ariel M.
Sweden, Stockholm
Oskar Klein Centre
Sweden, Stockholm
Albanova Universitetscentrum
Hattori, Takashi G.
Japan, Mitaka
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Hsiao, Eric Y.
United States, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ihara, Yutaka
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Kashikawa, Nobunari
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Konishi, Kohki
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Kowalski, Marek P.
Germany, Bonn
Universität Bonn
Lidman, Christopher E.
Australia
Australian Astronomical Observatory
Lubin, Lori M.
United States, Davis
University of California, Davis
Meyers, Joshua E.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
United States, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Morokuma, Tomoki
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Panagia, Nino
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Perlmutter, Saul
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
United States, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Postman, Marc P.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Rosati, P.
Germany, Garching Bei Munchen
European Southern Observatory
Schlegel, David J.
United States, Berkeley
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stanford, Spencer Adam
United States, Davis
University of California, Davis
United States, Livermore
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Takanashi, Naohiro
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Tokita, Kouichi
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Yasuda, Naoki
Japan, Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Statistics
Citations: 43
Authors: 31
Affiliations: 20
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1088/0004-637X/745/1/31
ISSN:
0004637X
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Study Approach
Quantitative