The essence supernova survey: Survey optimization, observations, and supernova photometry

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 666, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 674-693

  Miknaitis, G ^a   Pignata, G ^b   Rest, A ^c   Wood Vasey, W M ^d   Blondin, S ^d   Challis, P ^d   Smith, R C ^c   Stubbs, C W ^d,e   Suntzeff, N B ^c,f   Foley, R J ^g   Matheson, T ^h   Tonry, J L ⁱ   Aguilera, C ^c   Blackman, J W ^j   Becker, A C ^k   Clocchiatti, A ^b   Covarrubias, R ^k   Davis, T M ^l   Filippenko, A V ^g   Garg, A ^d,e   Garnavich, P M ^m   Hicken, M ^d,e   Jha, S ^g,n   Krisciunas, K ^f,m   Kirshner, R P ^d   Leibundgut, B ^o   Li, W ^g   Miceli, A ^k   Narayan, G ^d,e   Prieto, J L ^p   Rmss, A G ^q,r   Salvo, M E ^j   Schmidt, B P ^j   Sollerman, J ^l,s   Spyromilio, J ^o   Zenteno, A ^c   more..

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^j AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

ⁿ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^p OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q NASA Hubble Fellowship Program   (United States)

^r JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Methods: data analysis; Supernovae: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348888496     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519986     Document Type: Article

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