WISeREP—An Interactive Supernova Data Repository

By O. Yaron, A. Gal-yam. 2012

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We have entered an era of massive data sets in astronomy. In particular, the number of supernova (SN) discoveries and classifications has substantially increased over the years from few tens to thousands per year. It is no longer the case that observations of a few prototypical events encapsulate most spectroscopic information about SNe, motivating the development of modern tools to collect, archive, organize, and distribute spectra in general and SN spectra in particular. For this reason, we have developed the Weizmann Interactive Supernova Data Repository (WISeREP)—an SQL-based database (DB) with an interactive Web-based graphical interface. The system serves as an archive of high-quality SN spectra, including both historical (legacy) data and data that are accumulated by ongoing modern programs. The archive provides information about objects, their spectra, and related metadata. Utilizing interactive plots, we provide a graphical interface to visualize data, perform line identification of the major relevant species, determine object redshifts, classify SNe, and measure expansion velocities. Guest users may view and download spectra or other data that have been placed in the public domain. Registered users may also view and download data that are proprietary to specific programs with which they are associated. The DB currently holds more than 8000 spectra, of which more than 5000 are public; the latter include published spectra from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF), all of the SUSPECT (Supernova Spectrum) archive, the Caltech-Core-Collapse Program (CCCP), the CfA SN spectra archive, and published spectra from the University of California, Berkeley, SNDB repository. It offers an efficient and convenient way to archive data and share it with colleagues, and we expect that data stored in this way will be easy to access, increasing its visibility, usefulness, and scientific impact. We encourage the SN community worldwide to make use of the data and tools provided by WISeREP and to contribute data to be made globally available and archived for posterity.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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ASASSN-15oi: a rapidly evolving, luminous tidal disruption event at 216 Mpc (2016, methodology): “This publication makes use of data obtained from the Weizmann interactive supernova data repository (WISEREP; Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).”
Bolometric light curves and explosion parameters of 38 stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae (2014, methodology): “Practically, the measurements of vph consist of a simple Gaussian fitting procedure to the absorption features of a wavelengthand flux-calibrated spectrum of the SN taken on or near peak, obtained from WISeREP (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012)3 and Modjaz et al. (2014), performed in the IRAF package SPLOT.”
Hubble Space Telescope spectra of the type Ia supernova SN 2011fe: a tail of low-density, high-velocity material with Z < Z⊙ (2013, methodology): “The spectra are shown in Fig 1, and are available from the WISeREP archive2 (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).”
The Unprecedented Third Outburst of SN 2009ip: A Luminous Blue Variable Becomes a Supernova (2012, result): “Instead, the large velocity widths of the emission lines observed from SN 2009ip in 2012 appear very similar to those of SNe II-P, such as SN 2005cs (Pastorello et al. 2006), which is shown in Figure 4 [data obtained from Weizmann Interactive Supernova Data Repository (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012)] By Sep.”
PTF12os and iPTF13bvn. Two stripped-envelope supernovae from low-mass progenitors in NGC 5806 (2016, methodology): “All spectral data and corresponding information is available via WISeREP9 (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).”
An Open Catalog for Supernova Data (2016, background): “…4http://dau.itep.ru/sn/lc 5https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/supernova/SNarchive. html 6http://heracles.astro.berkeley.edu/sndb/ tory7 (WISeREP, Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012) and the Transient Name Server8, there has been an ever growing interest in bringing supernova science closer to an “era of…”
A CONTINUUM OF H- TO He-RICH TIDAL DISRUPTION CANDIDATES WITH A PREFERENCE FOR E+A GALAXIES (2014, methodology): “Digital versions of our spectra are available online through the Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository (WISeREP9; Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).”
Observational and Physical Classification of Supernovae (2016, neutral): “Avishay Gal-Yam Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, e-mail: avishay.gal-yam@weizmann.ac.il 1 All spectra presented and discussed here are available from the public SN spectroscopy archive WISeREP (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).”
PESSTO: survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (2014, methodology): “2.1, PESSTO immediately releases reduced data for all classification targets via WISeREP (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012) within 24 h of being taken.”
On the diversity of superluminous supernovae: ejected mass as the dominant factor (2015, methodology): “The data for these are from the references in Table 1, and are available from WISeREP (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012) or via the PESSTO data release through the ESO archive (Smartt et al. 2015).”
The Observer's Guide to the Gamma-Ray Burst-Supernova Connection (2016, methodology): “Some data was extracted using the Dexter applet [423], while others were downloaded from the WiseREP archive [424].”
TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE STRONGLY INTERACTING WITH THEIR CIRCUMSTELLAR MEDIUM (2013, methodology): “Upon publication, all spectra presented in this paper will be available in electronic format on WISeREP (the Weizmann Interactive Supernova data REPository; Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).24 These eight SNe Ia-CSM are briefly discussed (in pairs) below.”
HYDROGEN-POOR SUPERLUMINOUS SUPERNOVAE AND LONG-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS HAVE SIMILAR HOST GALAXIES (2013, methodology): “To determine a metallicity for PTF09cnd, we download the archival spectra of the transient from Quimby et al. (2011b) from the WISEREP database (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).”
DISCOVERY, PROGENITOR AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF A STRIPPED ENVELOPE SUPERNOVA iPTF13bvn (2013, methodology): “All photometry tables and spectroscopy data will be made public via WISeREP4 (Yaron & Gal-Yam 2012).”