The spectroscopic diversity of Type Ia supernovae

Blondin, S; Matheson, Thomas; Kirshner, Robert P; Mandel, K S; Berlind, P; Calkins, M; Challis, Peter M; Garnavich, Peter M; Jha, S W; Modjaz, M; Riess, A G; Schmidt, Brian; Riess, Adam

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The spectroscopic diversity of Type Ia supernovae

Date

2012

Authors

Blondin, S

Matheson, Thomas

Kirshner, Robert P

Mandel, K S

Berlind, P

Calkins, M

Challis, Peter M

Garnavich, Peter M

Jha, S W

Modjaz, M

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

We present 2603 spectra of 462 nearby Type Ia supernovae (SNeIa), including 2065 previously unpublished spectra, obtained during 1993-2008 through the Center for Astrophysics Supernova Program. There are on average eight spectra for each of the 313 SNeIa