SNLS Projects

This page is somewhat out of date. See the published results here.

Project Outline

• SNLS Type Ia SN Sample
• Frame Limits
• Sky Noise
• Simulated Population
• Monte Carlo Survey Efficiency
• Host Extinction
  • Literature:
    • Hatano, Branch, & Deaton (1998) Host extinction model
    • Riello, & Patat (2005) astro-ph/0506684 Extinction correction for Type Ia rates
    • Clements et al. (2005) astro-ph/0507642 Dust evolution to z = 0.5
    • Nugent, Kim, and Perlmutter (2002) K-corrections and Extinction Corrections for Type Ia SNe
• Systematic Errors
• Luminosity Function for computing SNu's
  • CFRS
  • DEEP2
  • VLT DEEP
  • SDSS
• Literature Comparison
  • TODO:
    1. Strengthen case against losses in galaxy centers
  • Rate gradient with redshift
  • Literature:
    • Gal-Yam, Maoz, & Sharon (2002)
    • Pain et al. (2002)
    • Tonry et al. (2003)
    • Blanc et al. (2004)
    • Dahlen et al. (2004)
    • Strolger et al. (2005)
    • Barris & Tonry (2005)
• Model comparisons
  • Delay Time
  • SFR History
  • Scannapieco & Bildsten (2005) Two-component model
  • Mannucci et al. (2005b) Host color hybrid model
• Writeup
  • Talk at LBNL, Nov 05
  • SNLS Hawaii Talk
  • Winter '06 AAS abstract, poster
  • Submitted MS (AJ)