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most citedThe Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey: V. Improving the Dark Energy Constraints Above z>1 and Building an Early-Type-Hosted Supernova Sample

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astro-ph2008

Science with UT's Dichroic-Mirror Camera (DMC), 15-band simultaneous imager

Hanindyo Kuncarayakti, Mamoru Doi, Hakim L. Malasan +20

We introduce the Dichroic-Mirror Camera (DMC), an instrument developed at the University of Tokyo which is capable of performing simultaneous imaging in fifteen bands. The main fea…

astro-ph2008★ 124 cited

Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient with the Hubble Space Telescope

K. Barbary, K. S. Dawson, K. Tokita +27

We present observations of SCP 06F6, an unusual optical transient discovered during the Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. The transient brightened over a period of ~…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Light curve studies of nearby Type Ia Supernovae with a Multi-band Stretch method

N. Takanashi, M. Doi, N. Yasuda

We create new U, B, V, R and I-band light curve templates of type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) and re-analyze 122 nearby (redshift < 0.11) SNe Ia using a new ``Multi-band Stretch method,…

astro-ph2008★ 63 cited

First-Year Spectroscopy for the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

Chen Zheng, Roger W. Romani, Masao Sako +77

This paper presents spectroscopy of supernovae discovered in the first season of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey. This program searches for and measures multi-band…

astro-ph2008★ 128 cited

A Measurement of the Rate of type-Ia Supernovae at Redshift 0.1 from the First Season of the SDSS-II Supernova Survey

Benjamin Dilday, R. Kessler, J. A. Frieman +50

We present a measurement of the rate of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first of three seasons of data from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. For this measurement, we include 17 S…

astro-ph2007★ 239 cited

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations

Masao Sako, B. Bassett, A. Becker +47

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey has identified a large number of new transient sources in a 300 sq. deg. region along the celestial equator during its first two se…

astro-ph2007★ 2 cited

A Study of the Type Ia/IIn Supernova 2005gj from X-ray to the Infrared: Paper I

J. L. Prieto, P. M. Garnavich, M. M. Phillips +53

We present extensive ugrizYHJK photometry and optical spectroscopy of SN 2005gj obtained by the SDSS-II and CSP Supernova Projects, which give excellent coverage during the first 1…

astro-ph2007★ 15 cited

Rest-Frame R-band Lightcurve of a z~1.3 Supernova Obtained with Keck Laser Adaptive Optics

J. Melbourne, K. S. Dawson, D. C. Koo +24

We present Keck diffraction limited H-band photometry of a z~1.3 Type Ia supernova (SN) candidate, first identified in a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) search for SNe in massive high…