Rates of superluminous supernovae at z ∼ 0.2

Quimby, Robert M.; Yuan, Fang; Akerlof, C. W.; Wheeler, J. Craig

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Rates of superluminous supernovae at z ∼ 0.2

Date

2013

Authors

Quimby, Robert M.

Yuan, Fang

Akerlof, C. W.

Wheeler, J. Craig

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

We calculate the volumetric rate of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) based on five events discovered with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment-IIIb (ROTSE-IIIb) telescope. We gather light curves of 19 events from the literature and our own unpu