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The Core-collapse rate from the Supernova Legacy Survey

7 Apr 2009arXiv:0904.1066links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

G. Bazin, N. Palanque-Delabrouille, J. Rich, V. Ruhlmann-Kleider, E. Aubourg, L. Le Guillou, P. Astier, C. Balland, S. Basa, R. G. Carlberg, A. Conley, D. Fouchez, J. Guy, D. Hardin, I. M. Hook, D. A. Howell, R. Pain, K. Perrett, C. J. Pritchet, N. Regnault, M. Sullivan, P. Antilogus, V. Arsenijevic, S. Baumont, S. Fabbro, J. Le Du, C. Lidman, M. Mouchet, A. Mourão, E. S. Walker

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We use three years of data from the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) to study the general properties of core-collapse and type Ia supernovae. This is the first such study using the "rolling search" technique which guarantees well-sampled SNLS light curves and good efficiency for supernovae brighter than i^'∼24. Using host photometric redshifts, we measure the supernova absolute magnitude distribution down to luminosities 4.5 mag fainter than normal SNIa. Using spectroscopy and light-curve fitting to discriminate against SNIa, we find a sample of 117 core-collapse supernova candidates with redshifts z<0.4 (median redshift of 0.29) and measure their rate to be larger than the type Ia supernova rate by a factor 4.5±0.8(stat.) ±0.6 (sys.). This corresponds to a core-collapse rate at z=0.3 of [1.42±0.3(stat.) ±0.3(sys.)]×10⁻⁴⁻¹(h₇₀⁻¹)⁻³.

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