NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2010B-0533
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PI: Andrew Drake, Caltech, ajd@cacr.caltech.edu
Address: CACR, 1200 E. Californina Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
CoI: Ashish Mahabal, Caltech
CoI: George Djorgovski, Caltech
CoI: Eric Christensen, Gemini
CoI: Edward Beshore, LPL
CoI: Marcio Catelan, PUC de Chile
CoI: Jose Prieto, Carnegie Observatories
Title: The Nature of Extreme Supernova Explosions
Abstract:
Supernovae provide important insight into the lives and deaths of
stellar systems as well as being vital cosmological distance standards.
This proposal is for spectroscopic follow-up of the extremely luminous
events currently being discovered by the Catalina Real-time Transient
Survey (CRTS). Like the large synoptic surveys of the future, the three
telescopes CRTS employs to discover optical transients cover tens of
thousands of square degrees on the sky each lunation. This coverage has
so far enabled the discovery of well over 1200 distinct optical
transient events including more than 330 supernovae. Among these
supernovae at least a dozen are extremely luminous type IIn and pair-
instability supernovae. In this work we hope to significantly increase
the understanding of the nature of the supernova progenitors, as well as
their host galaxies.
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85726, Phone: (520) 318-8000, Fax: (520) 318-8360
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