Overview of the Nearby Supernova Factory

By G. Aldering, G. Adam, P. Antilogus, P. Astier, R. Bacon, S. Bongard, C. Bonnaud, Y. Copin, D. Hardin, F. Hénault and 13 more. 2002

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STELLAR AND PLANETARY PROPERTIES OF K2 CAMPAIGN 1 CANDIDATES AND VALIDATION OF 17 PLANETS, INCLUDING A PLANET RECEIVING EARTH-LIKE INSOLATION (2015, methodology): “An optical spectrum was obtained using SNIFS (Aldering et al. 2002; Lantz et al. 2004) on the University of Hawai’i 2.2 m telescope on the night of 2015 January 30.”
THE CARNEGIE SUPERNOVA PROJECT: FIRST PHOTOMETRY DATA RELEASE OF LOW-REDSHIFT TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE (2009, background): “Other significant samples of nearby SNe Ia are being produced by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS; Filippenko et al. 2001; Filippenko 2005; Filippenko, Li, & Treffers 2009) and the Nearby Supernova Factory (Aldering et al. 2002).”
RESULTS OF THE LICK OBSERVATORY SUPERNOVA SEARCH FOLLOW-UP PHOTOMETRY PROGRAM: BVRI LIGHT CURVES OF 165 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE (2010, unknown): “Note. a Discovered and spectroscopically classified by the Nearby Supernova Factory (Aldering et al. 2002).”
The Cow: Discovery of a Luminous, Hot, and Rapidly Evolving Transient (2018, methodology): “The SNIFS spectrum shows narrow absorption features from the MW and the host galaxy, CGCG 127-68.”
ASTROMETRY.NET: BLIND ASTROMETRIC CALIBRATION OF ARBITRARY ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES (2009, methodology): “The DeepSky project (Nugent et al. 2009) is reprocessing the data taken as part of the Palomar-QUEST sky survey and Nearby Supernova Factory (Djorgovski et al. 2009; Aldering et al. 2002).”
OPTICAL SPECTRA OF 73 STRIPPED-ENVELOPE CORE-COLLAPSE SUPERNOVAE (2014, methodology): “Systematic SN searches include the Lick Observatory SN Search (LOSS; Filippenko et al. 2001), the Texas SN Search10 (Quimby 2006), and the Nearby SN Factory (Aldering et al. 2002), among others.”
HOW TO CONSTRAIN YOUR M DWARF: MEASURING EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE, BOLOMETRIC LUMINOSITY, MASS, AND RADIUS (2015, methodology): “Optical spectra of all stars were obtained with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS, Aldering et al. 2002; Lantz et al. 2004) on the University of Hawaii 2.2 m telescope on Mauna Kea.”
THE SPECTROSCOPIC DIVERSITY OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE (2000, background): “…important to the community, and serve as the basis 13 Starting in 2008 we also followed a few supernovae discovered by the SNfactory collaboration (Aldering et al. 2002) and reported on the SNfactory Supernova Discoveries webpage, http://snfactory.lbl.gov/snf/open access/snlist.php. for triggers…”
Evidence of Environmental Dependencies of Type Ia Supernovae from the Nearby Supernova Factory indicated by Local H$\alpha$ (2013, methodology): “In this work we analyze the host galaxy regions in the immediate vicinity for a large sample of SNe Ia from the Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory, Aldering et al. 2002).”
ZODIACAL EXOPLANETS IN TIME (ZEIT). III. A SHORT-PERIOD PLANET ORBITING A PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE STAR IN THE UPPER SCORPIUS OB ASSOCIATION (2016, methodology): “Bias, flat and dark correction, as well as cosmic ray rejection, construction of the data cubes, and extraction of the one-dimensional spectrum are described in detail in Aldering et al. (2002).”
CONSTRAINING TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA MODELS: SN 2011fe AS A TEST CASE (2012, methodology): “3 we compare synthetic spectra from our models with flux-calibrated spectra of SN 2011fe taken by the SNfactory collaboration with the SNIFS instrument (Aldering et al. 2002) on the University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope on Mauna Kea.”
CfA3: 185 TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA LIGHT CURVES FROM THE CfA (2009, methodology): “Other groups that are working on significant nearby samples are KAIT,25 in conjunction with the LOTOSS/LOSS SN searches, CSP (Hamuy et al. 2006) and the Nearby Supernova 25 http://astro.berkeley.edu/∼bait/kait.html Factory (Aldering et al. 2002).”
CONFIRMATION OF A STAR FORMATION BIAS IN TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA DISTANCES AND ITS EFFECT ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT (2014, methodology): “Using Nearby Supernova Factory observations (SNfactory; Aldering et al. 2002), R13 showed that SN Ia standardized magnitudes depend on the star formation activity of the SN environment within a projected radius of 1 kpc, as traced by Hα surface brightness.”
On the Progenitor of SN 2005gl and the Nature of Type IIn Supernovae (2006, methodology): “…13.5, we observed SN2005gl with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS), a high-throughput dual-channel lenslet-based instrument (on the University of Hawaii 2.2 m telescope on Mauna Kea) optimized for automated observation of point sources on a diffuse background (Aldering et al. 2002).”
THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY-II SUPERNOVA SURVEY: SEARCH ALGORITHM AND FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS (2007, background): “Current low-redshift SN surveys and followup programs (Lick Observatory Supernova Search – LOSS3; Filippenko et al. 2001, Carnegie Supernova Project – CSP4; Hamuy et al. 2006, Nearby Supernova Factory – SNFactory5; Aldering et al. 2002, and the CfA SN Group6), are continuing to discover SNe and comp”
SPECTRO-THERMOMETRY OF M DWARFS AND THEIR CANDIDATE PLANETS: TOO HOT, TOO COOL, OR JUST RIGHT? (2013, methodology): “Optical spectra of both the calibration sample and the Kepler planet host sample were obtained with the SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS, Aldering et al. 2002; Lantz et al. 2004) on the University of Hawaii 2.2m telescope atop Mauna Kea.”
Cosmological Results from High-z Supernovae (2003, methodology): “…Filippenko et al. 2001) is finding and monitoring record numbers of very nearby supernovae, with 82 in 2002 alone.21 The Nearby Supernova Factory (Aldering et al. 2002) will obtain spectrophotometry for 300 nearby SNe Ia, suitable for K-corrections of highredshift supernovae and for exploring SN…”