TY - JOUR
T1 - The data release of the sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey
AU - Sako, Masao
AU - Bassett, Bruce
AU - Becker, Andrew C.
AU - Brown, Peter J.
AU - Campbell, Heather
AU - Wolf, Rachel
AU - Cinabro, David
AU - D’andrea, Chris B.
AU - Dawson, Kyle S.
AU - Dejongh, Fritz
AU - Depoy, Darren L.
AU - Dilday, Ben
AU - Doi, Mamoru
AU - Filippenko, Alexei V.
AU - Fischer, John A.
AU - Foley, Ryan J.
AU - Frieman, Joshua A.
AU - Galbany, Lluis
AU - Garnavich, Peter M.
AU - Goobar, Ariel
AU - Gupta, Ravi R.
AU - Hill, Gary J.
AU - Hayden, Brian T.
AU - Hlozek, Renée
AU - Holtzman, Jon A.
AU - Hopp, Ulrich
AU - Jha, Saurabh W.
AU - Kessler, Richard
AU - Kollatschny, Wolfram
AU - Leloudas, Giorgos
AU - Marriner, John
AU - Marshall, Jennifer L.
AU - Miquel, Ramon
AU - Morokuma, Tomoki
AU - Mosher, Jennifer
AU - Nichol, Robert C.
AU - Nordin, Jakob
AU - Olmstead, Matthew D.
AU - Östman, Linda
AU - Prieto, Jose L.
AU - Richmond, Michael
AU - Romani, Roger W.
AU - Sollerman, Jesper
AU - Stritzinger, Max
AU - Schneider, Donald P.
AU - Smith, Mathew
AU - Wheeler, J. Craig
AU - Yasuda, Naoki
AU - Zheng, Chen
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSS Web Site ishttp://www.sdss.org/.
Funding Information:
The Penn group was supported by DOE grant DE-FOA-0001358 and NSF grant AST-1517742. This work was completed in part with resources provided by the University of Chicago Research Computing Center. A.V. Filippenko has received generous financial assistance from the Christopher R. Redlich Fund, the TABASGO Foundation, and NSF grant AST-1211916. Supernova research at Rutgers University is supported in part by NSF CAREER award AST-0847157 to S.W.Jha. G.Leloudas is supported by the Swedish Research Council through grant No. 623-2011-7117. M.D.Stritzinger gratefully acknowledges generous support provided by the Danish Agency for Science and Technology and Innovation realized through a Sapere Aude Level 2 grant.
Funding Information:
The Penn group was supported by DOE grant DE-FOA-0001358 and NSF grant AST-1517742. This work was completed in part with resources provided by the University of Chicago Research Computing Center. A.V. Filippenko has received generous financial assistance from the Christopher R. Redlich Fund, the TABASGO Foundation, and NSF grant AST-1211916. Supernova research at Rutgers University is supported in part by NSF CAREER award AST-0847157 to S.W. Jha. G. Leloudas is supported by the Swedish Research Council through grant No. 623-2011-7117. M.D. Stritzinger gratefully acknowledges generous support provided by the Danish Agency for Science and Technology and Innovation realized through a Sapere Aude Level 2grant.
Funding Information:
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) is a joint project of the University of Texas at Austin, the Pennsylvania State University, Stanford University, Ludwig-Maximillians-Univer-sität München, and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The HET is named in honor of its principal benefactors, William P. Hobby and Robert E. Eberly. The Marcario Low-Resolution Spectrograph is named for Mike Marcario of High Lonesome Optics, who fabricated several optics for the instrument but died before its completion; it is a joint project of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope partnership and the Instituto de Astronomía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. The Apache Point Observatory 3.5m telescope is owned and operated by the Astrophysical Research Consortium. We thank the observatory director, Suzanne Hawley, and site manager, Bruce Gillespie, for their support of this project. The Subaru Telescope is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. The William Herschel Telescope is operated by the Isaac Newton Group, and the Nordic Optical Telescope is operated jointly by Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, both on the island of La Palma in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. Observations at the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla Observatory were made under programme IDs 77.A-0437, 78.A-0325, and 79.A-0715. Kitt Peak National Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory, is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The WIYN Observatory is a joint facility of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University, Yale University, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. The W.M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Observatory was made possible by the generous financial support of the W.M. Keck Foundation. The South African Large Telescope of the South African Astronomical Observatory is operated by a partnership between the National Research Foundation of South Africa, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Board, Rutgers University, Georg-August-Universität Göttin-gen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Canterbury, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Dartmough College, Carnegie Mellon University, and the United Kingdom SALT consortium. The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) is operated by the Fundación Galileo Galilei of the Italian INAF (Istituo Nazionale di Astrofisica) on the island of La Palma in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This paper describes the data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey conducted between 2005 and 2007. Light curves, spectra, classifications, and ancillary data are presented for 10,258 variable and transient sources discovered through repeat ugriz imaging of SDSS Stripe 82, a 300deg2 area along the celestial equator. This data release is comprised of all transient sources brighter than r ≃ 22.5 mag with no history of variability prior to 2004. Dedicated spectroscopic observations were performed on a subset of 889 transients, as well as spectra for thousands of transient host galaxies using the SDSS-III BOSS spectrographs. Photometric classifications are provided for the candidates with good multi-color light curves that were not observed spectroscopically, using host galaxy redshift information when available. From these observations, 4607 transients are either spectroscopically confirmed, or likely to be, supernovae, making this the largest sample of supernova candidates ever compiled. We present a new method for SN host-galaxy identification and derive host-galaxy properties including stellar masses, star formation rates, and the average stellar population ages from our SDSS multi-band photometry. We derive SALT2 distance moduli for a total of 1364 SNIa with spectroscopic redshifts as well as photometric redshifts for a further 624 purely photometric SNIa candidates. Using the spectroscopically confirmed subset of the three-year SDSS-II SNIa sample and assuming a flat ΛCDM cosmology, we determine ΩM = 0.315 ± 0.093 (statistical error only) and detect a non-zero cosmological constant at 5.7σ.
AB - This paper describes the data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Survey conducted between 2005 and 2007. Light curves, spectra, classifications, and ancillary data are presented for 10,258 variable and transient sources discovered through repeat ugriz imaging of SDSS Stripe 82, a 300deg2 area along the celestial equator. This data release is comprised of all transient sources brighter than r ≃ 22.5 mag with no history of variability prior to 2004. Dedicated spectroscopic observations were performed on a subset of 889 transients, as well as spectra for thousands of transient host galaxies using the SDSS-III BOSS spectrographs. Photometric classifications are provided for the candidates with good multi-color light curves that were not observed spectroscopically, using host galaxy redshift information when available. From these observations, 4607 transients are either spectroscopically confirmed, or likely to be, supernovae, making this the largest sample of supernova candidates ever compiled. We present a new method for SN host-galaxy identification and derive host-galaxy properties including stellar masses, star formation rates, and the average stellar population ages from our SDSS multi-band photometry. We derive SALT2 distance moduli for a total of 1364 SNIa with spectroscopic redshifts as well as photometric redshifts for a further 624 purely photometric SNIa candidates. Using the spectroscopically confirmed subset of the three-year SDSS-II SNIa sample and assuming a flat ΛCDM cosmology, we determine ΩM = 0.315 ± 0.093 (statistical error only) and detect a non-zero cosmological constant at 5.7σ.
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U2 - 10.1088/1538-3873/aab4e0
DO - 10.1088/1538-3873/aab4e0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073280683
VL - 130
JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
SN - 0004-6280
IS - 988
M1 - 064002
ER -