The La Silla-QUEST Low Redshift Supernova Survey

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作者
Baltay, Charles [1 ]
Rabinowitz, David [1 ]
Hadjiyska, Elena [1 ]
Walker, Emma S. [1 ]
Nugent, Peter [2 ,3 ]
Coppi, Paolo [1 ]
Ellman, Nancy [1 ]
Feindt, Ulrich [4 ]
McKinnon, Ryan [1 ]
Horowitz, Benjamin [1 ]
Effron, Aaron [1 ]
机构
[1] Yale Univ, Dept Phys, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[4] Univ Bonn, Bonn, Germany
关键词
DARK ENERGY; CONSTRAINTS;
D O I
10.1086/671198
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The La Silla-QUEST Low Redshift Supernova Survey is a part of the La Silla-QUEST Southern Hemisphere Variability Survey. The survey uses the 10 deg(2) QUEST camera installed at the prime focus of the 1.0-m Schmidt Telescope of the European Southern Observatory at La Silla, Chile, and utilizes essentially all of the observing time of the telescope. The QUEST camera was installed on the ESO Schmidt telescope in 2009 after completing a 5 year variability survey in the northern hemisphere using the 1.2-m Oschin Schmidt telescope at Palomar. La Silla-QUEST started science operations in 2009 September. The low redshift supernova survey commenced in 2011 December and is planned to continue for the next 4 years. In this article we describe the instrumentation, software, operation, and performance characteristics of the survey.
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