Exploring the Outer Solar System with the ESSENCE Supernova Survey (2008)
Becker, A. C., Arraki, K., Kaib, N. A., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Aguilera, C., Blackman, J. W., ...
We report the discovery and orbit determination of 14 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) from the ESSENCE Supernova Survey difference imaging dataset. Two additional objects discovered in a similar...
Time Dilation in Type Ia Supernova Spectra at High Redshift (2008)
Blondin, S., Davis, T. M., Krisciunas, K., Schmidt, B. P., Sollerman, J., Wood-Vasey, W. M., ...
We present multiepoch spectra of 13 high-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) drawn from the literature, the ESSENCE and SNLS projects, and our own separate dedicated program on the ESO Very Large...
Light and Motion in SDSS Stripe 82: The Catalogues (2008)
Bramich, D. M., Vidrih, S., Wyrzykowski, L., Munn, J. A., Lin, H., Evans, N. W., ...
We present a new public archive of light-motion curves in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82, covering 99 deg in right ascension from RA = 20.7 h to 3.3 h and spanning 2.52 deg in declination...
Dilday, Benjamin, Kessler, R., Frieman, J. A., Holtzman, J., Marriner, J., Miknaitis, G., ...
We present a measurement of the rate of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the first of three seasons of data from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey. For this measurement, we include 17 SNe Ia at redshift...
Constraining Cosmic Evolution of Type Ia Supernovae (2007)
Foley, Ryan J., Filippenko, A. V., Aguilera, C., Becker, A. C., Blondin, S., Challis, P., ...
We present the first large-scale effort of creating composite spectra of high-redshift type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) and comparing them to low-redshift counterparts. Through the ESSENCE project, we...
New UltraCool and Halo White Dwarf Candidates in SDSS Stripe 82 (2007)
Vidrih, S., Bramich, D. M., Hewett, P. C., Evans, N. W., Gilmore, G., Hodgkin, S., ...
A 2.5 x 100 degree region along the celestial equator (Stripe 82) has been imaged repeatedly from 1998 to 2005 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A new catalogue of ~4 million light-motion curves,...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary (2007)
Frieman, Joshua A., Bassett, B., Becker, A., Choi, C., Cinabro, D., DeJongh, F., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) has embarked on a multi-year project to identify and measure light curves for intermediate-redshift (0.05 < z < 0.35) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations (2007)
Sako, Masao, Bassett, B., Becker, A., Cinabro, D., DeJongh, F., Depoy, D. L., ...
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey has identified a large number of new transient sources in a 300 sq. deg. region along the celestial equator during its first two seasons of a...
A Study of the Type Ia/IIn Supernova 2005gj from X-ray to the Infrared: Paper I (2007)
Prieto, J. L., Garnavich, P. M., Phillips, M. M., DePoy, D. L., Parrent, J., Pooley, D., ...
We present extensive ugrizYHJK photometry and optical spectroscopy of SN 2005gj obtained by the SDSS-II and CSP Supernova Projects, which give excellent coverage during the first 150 days after the...
A Comparison of SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82 with Stetson's Photometric Standards (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Smith, J. A., Miknaitis, G., Lin, H., Tucker, D., Lupton, R., ...
We compare Stetson's photometric standards with measurements listed in a standard star catalog constructed using repeated SDSS imaging observations. The SDSS catalog includes over 700,000 candidate...
Davis, T. M., Mortsell, E., Sollerman, J., Becker, A. C., Blondin, S., Challis, P., ...
The first cosmological results from the ESSENCE supernova survey (Wood-Vasey et al. 2007) are extended to a wider range of cosmological models including dynamical dark energy and non-standard...
Wood-Vasey, W. M., Miknaitis, G., Stubbs, C. W., Jha, S., Riess, A. G., Garnavich, P. M., ...
We present constraints on the dark energy equation-of-state parameter, w=P/(rho c^2), using 60 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the ESSENCE supernova survey. We derive a set of constraints on the...
The ESSENCE Supernova Survey: Survey Optimization, Observations, and Supernova Photometry (2007)
Miknaitis, G., Pignata, G., Rest, A., Wood-Vasey, W. M., Blondin, S., Challis, P., ...
We describe the implementation and optimization of the ESSENCE supernova survey, which we have undertaken to measure the equation of state parameter of the dark energy. We present a method for...
A Comparison of SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82 with Stetson's Photometric Standards (2007)
Ivezic, Z., Smith, J. A., Miknaitis, G., Lin, H., Tucker, D. L., Lupton, R., ...
We compare Stetson's photometric standards with measurements listed in a standard star catalog constructed using repeated SDSS imaging observations. The SDSS catalog includes over 700,000 candidate...
The Peculiar SN 2005hk: Do Some Type Ia Supernovae Explode as Deflagrations? (2006)
Phillips, M. M., Li, W., Frieman, J. A., Blinnikov, S. I., DePoy, D., Prieto, J. L., ...
We present extensive u'g'r'i'BVRIYJHKs photometry and optical spectroscopy of SN 2005hk. These data reveal that SN 2005hk was nearly identical in its observed properties to SN 2002cx, which has been...
Echoes from Ancient Supernovae in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2005)
Rest, A., Suntzeff, N. B., Olsen, K., Prieto, J. L., Smith, R. C., Welch, D. L., ...
In principle, the light from historical supernovae could still be visible as scattered-light echoes even centuries later. However, while echoes have been discovered around some nearby extragalactic...
Using Line Profiles to Test the Fraternity of Type Ia Supernovae at High and Low Redshifts (2005)
Blondin, S., Dessart, L., Leibundgut, B., Branch, D., Hoeflich, P., Tonry, J. L., ...
Using archival data of low-redshift (z < 0.01) Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) and recent observations of high-redshift (0.16 < z 1.7] SN Ia, which are also subluminous. In addition, we give the first...
Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Nine High-Redshift ESSENCE Supernovae (2005)
Krisciunas, Kevin, Garnavich, Peter M., Challis, Peter, Prieto, Jose Luis, Riess, A. G., Barris, B., ...
We present broad-band light curves of nine supernovae ranging in redshift from 0.5 to 0.8. The supernovae were discovered as part of the ESSENCE project, and the light curves are a combination of...
Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Two Years (2004)
Matheson, T., Blondin, S., Foley, R. J., Chornock, R., Filippenko, A. V., Leibundgut, B., ...
We present the results of spectroscopic observations of targets discovered during the first two years of the ESSENCE project. The goal of ESSENCE is to use a sample of ~200 Type Ia supernovae (SNe...
Variability Studies with SDSS (2003)
Ivezic, Z., Lupton, R. H., Anderson, S., Eyer, L., Juric, M., Knapp, G. R., ...
The potential of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for wide-field variability studies is illustrated using multi-epoch observations for 3,000,000 point sources observed in 700 deg2 of sky, with time spans...
Cataclysmic Variables from SDSS I. The First Results (2001)
Szkody, P., Anderson, S. F., Agueros, M., Covarrubias, R., Bentz, M., Hawley, S., ...
The commissioning year of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has demonstrated that many cataclysmic variables have been missed in previous surveys with brighter limits. We report the identification of 22...