On the rates of type Ia supernovae in dwarf and giant hosts with rotse-IIIb

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

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On the rates of type Ia supernovae in dwarf and giant hosts with rotse-IIIb

Date

2012

Authors

Quimby, Robert M.

Yuan, Fang

Akerlof, C. W.

Wheeler, J. Craig

Warren, Michael S.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Abstract

We present a sample of 23 spectroscopically confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) that were discovered in the background of galaxy clusters targeted by ROTSE-IIIb and use up to 18 of these to determine the local (z̄ = 0.05) volumetric rate. Since our sur