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Deep UBVRI observations of a field within ELAIS-S1: the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey III
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC). (Galaxer och kosmologi)
Space Telescope Science Institute.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC). (Galaxer och kosmologi)
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Abstract [en]

Context. The Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey (SVISS) is an optical broad-band photometry survey, aimed at the search fordistant (redshifts z~0.7) supernovae, which are detected by means of monthly imaging in R and I bands with the VIMOS instrumenton the ESO VLT. The distances of the supernovae are estimated using photometric redshifts facilitated by additional U, B and V imaging also with VIMOS. In this paper we present the deep stacked imaging data in all these bands and a catalogue of galaxiesextending to very faint magnitudes.

Aims. We discuss the various steps followed to create a galaxy catalog, including the reduction and stacking of the data, astrometricand photometric calibration and source detections.We derived completeness, corrected number counts and color selected Lyman breakgalaxies. Raw number counts are also calculated. Finally, making use of a template fitting code, photometric redshifts are derived.

Methods. UBVRI deep imaging of a 4x56 sq. arcmin field within the ELAIS-S1 field is presented in this paper. The data reduction has been done with a dedicated MIDAS pipeline. The final images have been weighted by their seeing, which was found to optimise depth and spatial resolution. Source detection and phortometry was done using SExtractor. The photometric accuracy was tested by comparing the colors of the sources to stellar libraries and redshifted galaxy templates. A mixture of synthetic point-like andextended sources are simulated in order to estimate completeness. Derived number counts have been compared to the results ofsimilar surveys. Lyman break galaxy candidates were selected using color criteria: UBR, BRI, BVI and VRI, and their numbers computed and compared to other surveys.We have obtained photometric redshifts by spectral energy distribution template fitting. The photometric redshifts were calibrated using a sample of galaxies in the HDF-S with available spectroscopic redshifts that have also been observed with the same filter set as used here.

Results. Using a seeing weighted method to combine the science frames resulted in an increase of the number of faint objects detectedand minimizing the photometric errors. The astrometric accuracy is 0.400 arcsec with respect to 2MASS and 5 sigma limiting magnitudes for UBVRI are 28.2, 29.3, 28.3, 28.5 and 27.2 respectively (Vega). The computed galaxy number counts are in good agreement with previous works, with the U band counts of this survey being one of the deepest ever obtained. The raw number counts from broadband color selected Lyman break galaxies show a good agreement for the U and B dropouts with other surveys. Photometric redshifts have a scatter of dz=0.085 with a 9.1% fraction of outliers.

Conclusions. We derive deep number counts which are found to be consistent with previous works, reproducing the bright and faintends. Especially, the stacked deep U and I band data are found to present a comptetetive combination of depth and area, comparableto HDF observations. As well as V band, comparable to Subaru and the Lockman hole observations. Our U and B dropouts are within the expected redshift range, with mean values of 3 and 3.8 respectively.

Keywords [en]
imaging surveys, techniques: image processing, galaxies: photometry, photometric redshifts, lyman break galaxies
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Research subject
Astronomy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-56789OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-56789DiVA, id: diva2:413078
Available from: 2011-04-27 Created: 2011-04-27 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved
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1. The Frequency of Supernovae in the Early Universe
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The Frequency of Supernovae in the Early Universe
2011 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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Supernovae are cosmic explosions of cataclysmic proportion that signify the death of a star. While being interesting phenomena in their own right, their brightness also make them excellent probes of the early universe. Depending on the type of the progenitor star and the origin of the explosion different subjects can be investigated. In this dissertation the work I have done on the detection, characterisation and rate measurements of supernovae in the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Search is presented. We have discovered 16 supernovae that exploded billions of years ago (or, equivalently, at high redshift, z). The observed brightness and colour evolution have been used to classify the supernovae into either thermonuclear (type Ia) or core collapse (type II) supernovae. The accuracy of the classification code is high, only about 5% of the supernovae are mistyped, similar to other codes of the same kind. By comparing the observed frequency of supernovae to simulations the underlying supernova rate at these high redshifts have been measured. The main result reported in this thesis is that the core collapse supernova rate at high redshift matches the rates estimated from looking at the star formation history of the universe, and agree well with previous studies. The rate of Ia supernovae at high redshift have been investigated by several projects, our results show a somewhat higher rate of Ia supernovae than expected. Proper estimates of the systematic errors of rate measurements are found to be very important. Furthermore, by using novel techniques for reducing and stacking images, we have obtained a galaxy sample containing approximately 50,000 galaxies. Photometric redshifts have been obtained for most of the galaxies, the resulting accuracy below z=1 is on the order of 10%. The galaxy sample has also been used to find high redshift sources, so called Lyman Break Galaxies, at z=3-5.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 2011. p. 55
Keywords
supernovae, supernova typing, supernova rates, photometric redshifts, Lyman Break Galaxies
National Category
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Research subject
Astronomy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-56000 (URN)978-91-7447-274-5 (ISBN)
Public defence
2011-05-20, sal FA32, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Submitted. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.Available from: 2011-04-28 Created: 2011-04-04 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved
2. Distant supernovae and galaxies in the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey
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2011 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Multi colour imaging surveys help astronomers to find galaxies and clusters,and to gain insights on their physical properties and evolution.

In this thesis, I present the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey (SVISS), where the ELAIS-S field was observed with VIMOS UBVRI broad-band optical bands over a period of 5 years. The main goal of SVISS is to determine supernova rates at redshifts from z~0.1-1, but the wealth of data enable us to study also galaxy evolution and the supernovae hosts galaxies. I describe the work done to create a deep photometric catalogue of galaxies in the field,including computations of survey completeness and galaxy number counts. In addition I describehow we use colour criteria to select high redshift galaxy candidates (so called Lyman Break Galaxies).Photometric redshifts have been obtained for most galaxies in the field using a template-fitting method. I briefly describe this method and present the resulting redshift distribution.

We have found 16 supernovae in total, 7 thermonuclear supernovae and 9 core collapse, using the difference imaging technique.From their broad band flux and colour evolution of the supernovae, we classified them into core collapse and thermonuclear supernovae, with an internal accuracy of 95%. We compute supernova rates for both types up to redshift of 1, and we show a good agreement with the other determined rates.

We have done studies on the relation between supernovae and host galaxies to try understand the nature of supernovae and their environments.The position of the supernovae within the galaxies, their star formation rate, host galaxy luminosity, among others, have been derived and tested against published results showing a good agreement with results at lower redshifts.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 2011. p. 80
Keywords
imaging surveys, photometric redshfits, Lyman Break galaxies, supernova typing, supernova rates, supernova host galaxies
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Research subject
Astronomy
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62118 (URN)978-91-7447-362-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2011-10-10, sal FA32, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 1: Submitted. Paper 2: Submitted. Paper 3: Manuscript. Paper 4: Manuscript.Available from: 2011-09-18 Created: 2011-09-09 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved

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