SOUSA: the Swift Optical/Ultraviolet Supernova Archive

By P. Brown, A. Breeveld, S. Holland, P. Kuin, T. Pritchard. 2014

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The Ultra-Violet Optical Telescope on the Swift spacecraft has observed hundreds of supernovae, covering all major types and most subtypes. Here we introduce the Swift Optical/Ultraviolet Supernova Archive (SOUSA), which will contain all of the supernova images and photometry. We describe the observation and reduction procedures and how they impact the final data. We show photometry from well-observed examples of most supernova classes, whose absolute magnitudes and colors may be used to infer supernova types in the absence of a spectrum. A full understanding of the variety within classes and a robust photometric separation of the groups requires a larger sample, which will be provided by the final archive. The data from the existing Swift supernovae are also useful for planning future observations with Swift as well as future UV observatories.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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8. S. Valenti

Citations in the corpus

• The diversity of Type II supernova versus the similarity in their progenitors (2016, background): “A large fraction of SNe observed with Swift have been published recently (Brown et al. 2009; Pritchard et al 2014; Brown et al. 2014).”
• The Pantheon+ Analysis: Cosmological Constraints (2022, background): “…Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; Sako et al. 2011), Hubble Space Telescope (HST; Gilliland et al. 1999; Riess et al. 2001, 2004, 2007; Suzuki et al. 2012; Riess et al. 2018), and Low-z (grouped together as LOSS_11; Ganeshalingam et al. 2010; LOSS_21; Stahl et al. 2019; SOUSA135; Brown et al. 2014; CNIa0.”
• The Pantheon+ Analysis: The Full Data Set and Light-curve Release (2021, background): “Brown et al. (2014) Where is the site for the SN data? https://pbrown801.github.io/SOUSA/ What system is the SN in?”