Collection Citation
| Collection Title | Supernova Discoveries from the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) | ||
| Collection Creator/PI | SNfactory International Collaboration | ||
| Collection Sponsor | USDOE - Office of Science (SC) | ||
| Other Sponsors | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF); Yale University; CNRS and PNC (France) | ||
| Host Website | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) | ||
| Other Related Organizations | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL); University of Hawaii; Palomar-QUEST Consortium | ||
| Main Content Type | Numeric Files/Datasets; Scientific images | ||
| Subject Categories | 79 - ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS | ||
| Keywords | Supernovae; Galaxies; Accelerating Universe; Stars; Type Ia; QUEST; NEAT; Palomar; SNIFS; SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph | ||
| Description | The Nearby Supernova Factory is an experiment designed to collect data on more Type Ia supernovae than have ever been studied in a single project before, and in so doing, to answer some fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. Type Ia supernovae are extraordinarily bright, remarkably uniform objects which make excellent "standard candles" for measuring the expansion rate of the universe. However, such stellar explosions are very rare, occurring only a couple of times per millenium in a typical galaxy, and remaining bright enough to detect only for a few weeks. Previous studies of Type Ia supernovae led to the discovery of the mysterious "dark energy" that is causing the universe to expand at an accelerating rate. To reduce the statistical uncertainties in previous experimental data, extensive spectral and photometric monitoring of more Type Ia supernovae is required. The SNfactory collaboration has built an automated system consisting of specialized software and custom-built hardware that systematically searches the sky for new supernovae, screens potential candidates, then performs multiple spectral and photometric observations on each supernova. These observations are stored in a database to be made available to supernova researchers world-wide for further study and analysis.[copied from http://snfactory.lbl.gov/snf/snf-about.html] Users must register and agree to the open access honor system. Finding charts are in FITS format and may not be accessible through normal browser settings. | ||
| DDE Number | DDE00340 | ||
| Special Interface | Yes | ||
| Registration_Required | Yes |
