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The Rate of Supernovae at Redshift 0.1 − 1.0: the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey IV
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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Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8532-3594
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Astronomy. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).
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2012 (English)In: Astronomy and Astrophysics, ISSN 0004-6361, E-ISSN 1432-0746, Vol. 545, no A96Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

We present supernova rate measurements at redshift 0.1–1.5 from the Stockholm VIMOS Supernova Survey (SVISS). The sample contains 16 supernovae in total. The discovered supernovae have been classified into core collapse or thermonuclear (Ia) types based on their light curves, colour evolution and host galaxy photometric redshift. The rates we find for the core collapse supernovae are 1.25 (+2.27 +0.85 −0.97 −0.78) - with statistical and systematic errors, respectively - at z = 0.39 and 6.90 (+5.24 +3.04 −3.25 −2.14) at z = 0.73. For the Ia supernovae the rates are 2.02 (+1.57 +0.53−0.96 −0.57) at z = 0.39 and 1.03 (+0.92 +0.31−0.54 −0.36) at z = 0.80. All of these rate estimates have been corrected for host galaxy extinction. Using Monte Carlo simulations we make a thorough study of the systematic effects from assumptions made when calculating the rates and find that the most important errors comes from misclassification, the assumed mix of faint and bright supernova types and uncertainties in redshift. We compare our rates to other observations, to the star formation history for core collapse rates and to different models of the delay time distribution for Ia rates. Overall, our measurements agree quite well with these other rates when using redshift-dependent corrections for extinction. We do not find any evidence of a missing fraction of core collapse supernovae.

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2012. Vol. 545, no A96
Keywords [en]
supernovae, supernova rates
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Research subject
Astronomy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-56793DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219364ISI: 000309254900096OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-56793DiVA, id: diva2:413080
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Author count:10;

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
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2011 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

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.

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Stockholm: Department of Astronomy, Stockholm University, 2011. p. 55
Keywords
supernovae, supernova typing, supernova rates, photometric redshifts, Lyman Break Galaxies
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Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
Research subject
Astronomy
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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
National Category
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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