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The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey
Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75
We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…
Light-echoes from the plateau in Eta Carinae's Great Eruption reveal a two-stage shock-powered event
Nathan Smith, Jennifer E. Andrews, Armin Rest +7
We present multi-epoch photometry and spectroscopy of a light echo from eta Carinae's 19th century Great Eruption. This echo shows a steady decline over a decade, sampling the 1850…
Exceptionally fast ejecta seen in light echoes of Eta Carinae's Great Eruption
Nathan Smith, Armin Rest, Jennifer E. Andrews +7
In our ongoing study of eta Carinae's light echoes, there is a relatively bright echo that has been fading slowly, reflecting the 1845-1858 plateau of the eruption. A separate pape…
Light Curves of 213 Type Ia Supernovae from the ESSENCE Survey
Gautham Narayan, Armin Rest, Brad E. Tucker +34
The ESSENCE survey discovered 213 Type Ia supernovae at redshifts 0.1 < z < 0.81 between 2002 and 2008. We present their R and I-band photometry, measured from images obtained usin…
Light Echoes of Historic Transients
A. Rest, B. Sinnott, D. L. Welch +2
Light echoes, light from a variable source scattered off dust, have been observed for over a century. The recent discovery of light echoes around centuries-old supernovae in the Mi…
The Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey
Masao Sako, Bruce Bassett, Andrew C. Becker +46
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 anc…
Improved cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of the SDSS-II and SNLS supernova samples
M. Betoule, R. Kessler, J. Guy +60
We present cosmological constraints from a joint analysis of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) observations obtained by the SDSS-II and SNLS collaborations. The data set includes several l…
Light echoes reveal an unexpectedly cool Eta Carinae during its 19th-century Great Eruption
A. Rest, J. L. Prieto, N. R. Walborn +14
Eta Carinae (Eta Car) is one of the most massive binary stars in the Milky Way. It became the second-brightest star in the sky during its mid-19th century "Great Eruption," but the…
High Amplitude δ-Scutis in the Large Magellanic Cloud
A. Garg, K. H. Cook, S. Nikolaev +13
We present 2323 High-Amplitude δ-Scuti (HADS) candidates discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by the SuperMACHO survey (Rest et al. 2005). Frequency analyses of these can…
Exploring the Outer Solar System with the ESSENCE Supernova Survey
A. C. Becker, K. Arraki, N. A. Kaib +36
We report the discovery and orbit determination of 14 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey difference imaging dataset. Two additional objects discovered…
Scattered-Light Echoes from the Historical Galactic Supernovae Cassiopeia A and Tycho (SN 1572)
A. Rest, D. L. Welch, N. B. Suntzeff +16
We report the discovery of an extensive system of scattered light echo arclets associated with the recent supernovae in the local neighbourhood of the Milky Way: Tycho (SN 1572) an…
The ESSENCE Supernova Survey: Survey Optimization, Observations, and Supernova Photometry
G. Miknaitis, G. Pignata, A. Rest +33
We describe the implementation and optimization of the ESSENCE supernova survey, which we have undertaken to measure the equation of state parameter of the dark energy. We present…
Using Line Profiles to Test the Fraternity of Type Ia Supernovae at High and Low Redshifts
S. Blondin, L. Dessart, B. Leibundgut +34
Using archival data of low-redshift (z < 0.01) Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) and recent observations of high-redshift (0.16 < z <0.64; Matheson et al. 2005) SN Ia, we study the "unifo…
Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Observations of Type Ia Supernovae at Redshift 0.5: Cosmological Implications
A. Clocchiatti, B. Schmidt, A. Filippenko +26
We present observations of the Type Ia supernovae (SNe) 1999M, 1999N, 1999Q, 1999S, and 1999U, at redshift z~0.5. They were discovered in early 1999 with the 4.0~m Blanco telescope…