Download Full PDF Package. The low-redshift portion of the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) seeks to remedy this situation by providing photometry and spectrophotometry of a large sample of supernovae taken on telescope/filter/detector systems that are well understood and well characterized. The Earthbound Planet Search Program has discovered hundreds of planets orbiting nearby stars using telescopes at Lick Observatory, Keck Observatory, the Anglo-Australian Observatory, Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory, and the ESO Paranal Observatory. This paper. Sixteen years ago, NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) spacecraft discovered a large, faint blob of gas with a star at its center—an object unlike anything previously seen in our Milky Way galaxy. With over eight years of CAPSCam data, they are beginning to see likely true astrometric wobbles beginning to appear. Commissioning of the telescope is scheduled to begin in 2021. The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one member of the next class of super giant earth-based telescopes that promises to revolutionize our view and understanding of the universe. Download PDF Package. The Carnegie Supernova Project Supernovae are essential to understanding the chemical evolution of the universe. It's fundamental use is for fitting TypeIa supernova light-curves using template derived from the CSP uBVgriYJH photometry. The Carnegie Supernova Project The recent discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate has profoundly affected physics. To ensure that an army of researchers are available there is a mentoring program for undergraduate and graduate-level students from within a broad and diverse pool of young people within California, and at universities in Arizona, Toronto, and Chile. He used the emerging model organism, the stickleback fish, to map genetic changes that control skeletal evolution. However, the presently available data sets of optical and near-infrared light curves of supernovae are relatively small and/or heterogeneous, and employ photometric systems that are poorly characterized. PDF. PDF. An analysis of the first set of low-redshift (z < 0.08) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) monitored by the Carnegie Supernova Project between 2004 and 2006 is presented. Astronomical Journal, 2009. We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) (ugriYJH) photometry of host galaxies of Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) observed by the Carnegie Supernova Project-I. These contrary results suggest a new form of “dark energy”—some kind of repulsive force—is driving the universe. Download PDF. DEBUG): cmd. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The supernova project is observationally intensive, not just requiring many nights of telescope time, but extensive data reduction, analysis, and interpretation as well. Methods: Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) optical and near-infrared light curves and visual-wavelength spectroscopy of the Type IIn SNe 2005kj, 2006aa, 2006bo, 2006qq, and 2008fq are presented. path. These students, with the postdoctoral fellows involved in this endeavor, will be involved in front-line research using first-class facilities. Download Full PDF Package. He also develops computational methods to derive fundamental principles of evolution, such as how fast natural populations acquire new mutations and how past climates shaped continental-scale biodiversity patterns. Her Ph.D. research involved developing new tools for in vivo imaging of actin in cell nuclei. This work illustrated how molecular changes can generate morphological novelty in vertebrates. info ('Using existing %s egg: %s' % (project_name, setup_fn)) cmd. What does CSP stand for? getcwd if setup_fn is not None and os. These contrary results suggest a new form of “dark energy”—some kind of repulsive force—is driving the universe. The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation and Sheridan Lorenz supported several CSP workshops. Presented in this paper is the CSP-I photometric data release of low-redshift stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae. The high-redshift CSP is aimed at providing an independent estimate of the dark energy contribution to the total energy content of the universe. Highlights of this program include the detection of five of the first six exoplanets, the first eccentric planet, the first multiple planet system, the first sub-Saturn mass planet, the first sub-Neptune mass planet, the first terrestrial mass planet, and the first transit planet.Over the course of 30 years we have. The first phase of the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP-I) was a dedicated supernova follow-up program based at the Las Campanas Observatory that collected science data of young, low-redshift supernovae between 2004 and 2009. This paper. exists (setup_fn): logger. We use the spectroscopy and homogeneous photometry of 97 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) obtained by the Carnegie Supernova Project as well as a subset of 36 SNe Ia presented by Zheng et al. What is the abbreviation for Carnegie Supernova Project? She uses observations to estimate exoplanet interior and atmospheric compositions, and the chemical environments of their formation. Carnegie Supernova Project II: The Slowest Rising Type Ia Supernova LSQ14fmg and Clues to the Origin of Super-Chandrasekhar/03fg-like Events Hsiao, EY Hoeflich, P append ('-v') old_chdir = os. The Astronomical Journal, 2010. From 2014 to 2017 she was the Carnegie Origins Postdoctoral Fellow—a joint position between Carnegie’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (now part of EPL) and the Carnegie Observatories. (2018), we introduce the Carnegie Supernova Project-II (CSP-II), to follow up nearby SNe Ia in both the optical and the NIR. SN(oo)py is a python package that contains many tools for the analysis of TypeIa supernovae. The GMT, Along with Alycia Weinberger and Ian Thompson, Alan Boss has been running the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search (CAPS) program, which searches for extrasolar planets by the astrometric method, where the planet's presence is detected indirectly through the wobble of the host star around the center of mass of the system. The fund supports a postdoctoral fellowship in astronomy that rotates between the Carnegie Science departments of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C., and the Observatories in Pasadena California. Premium PDF Package. READ PAPER. The Carnegie Supernova Project: Analysis of the First Sample of Low-Redshift Type-Ia Supernovae. Type Ia supernovae also provide the most powerful observational tool currently available for studying the expansion history of the universe and the nature of dark energy. These are specific types of exploring stars with exceptional luminosity that allow astronomers to determine distances and the acceleration rate at different distances. The recent discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate has profoundly affected physics. The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is one of several ongoing efforts to improve the quality of the low-redshift data. The CSP will take advantage of the unique resources available to Carnegie researchers at the Las Campanas Observatory with guaranteed access to some 300 nights per year of observations on the Swope 1-m and the du Pont 2.5-m telescopes. I have tried to update to the latest and most stable python modules and remove the cruft that was simply too difficult to run on modern … Presented here is the second data release of nearby SN Ia photometry consisting of 50 objects, with a subset of 45 having near-infrared follow-up observations. They also caught an ultraviolet flash. In doing so, a more coherent picture ascribing the variety of observed SNe IIn types to particular progenitor scenarios is sought. Our multi-national team has been collecting data for 30 years, using the Precision Doppler technique. Download PDF. The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) was a five-year observational survey conducted at Las Campanas Observatory that obtained, among other things, high-quality light curves of ~100 low-redshift Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). PDF. 9 Over the five-year period ending in 2009 May, the CSP has obtained densely sampled optical and near-infrared (NIR) light curves of ~100 SNe Ia in a well-understood, homogeneous photometric system (Hamuy et al. The CSP is focused on testing for and reducing systematic uncertainties by obtaining multi-wavelength observations of approximately 100 supernovae falling in the redshift range 0.2 < z < 0.7. The CAPSCam planet search effort is on the verge of yielding a harvest of astrometrically discovered planets, as well as accurate parallactic distances to many young stars and M dwarfs. of the Carnegie Supernova Project. We determine host galaxy stellar masses and, for the first time, study their correlation with SN Ia standardized luminosity across optical and NIR (uBgVriYJH) bands. With a larger number of objects, an updated fit to the Lira relation is presented along with The campus has just undertaken its new experiential. L. Contreras. Actin is a major structural element in eukaryotic cells—cells with a nucleus and organelles —forming contractile polymers that drive muscle contraction, the migration of immune cells to  infection sites, and the movement of signals from one part of a cell to another. If the universe were gravity-dominated then it should be decelerating. Along with the accompanying paper, Phillips et al. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants AST-0306969, AST-0607438, AST-1008343,  AST-1613426, AST-1613455, and AST-161347. Pasadena, CA— In a refurbished Southern California garage, Carnegie astrophysicists are creating the virtual reality-enabled scientific workspace of the future where they will unlock the mysteries of the cosmos. We present an analysis of the final data release of the Carnegie Supernova Project I, focusing on the absolute calibration of the luminosity-decline rate relation for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) using new intrinsic color relations with respect to the color-stretch parameter, s BV, enabling improved dust extinction corrections. Belin changed course for her postdoctoral work, in, Evolutionary geneticist Moises Exposito-Alonso joined the Department of Plant Biology as a staff associate in September 2019. Using new genetic mapping and reverse genetic tools developed during his Ph.D., Cleves identified regulatory changes in a protein called bone morphogenetic protein 6 that were responsible for an evolved increase in tooth number in stickleback. Six off-axis 8.4 meter or 27-foot segments surround a central on-axis segment, forming a single optical surface 24.5 meters, or 80 feet, in diameter with a total collecting area of 368 square meters. Teske is interested in the diversity in exoplanet compositions and the origins of that diversity. SNooPy can therefore determine distances to … Free PDF. The Carnegie Supernova Project is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP) is designed to measure the luminosity distance for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift, and to set observational constraints on the dark energy contribution to the total energy content of the universe. Imagine standing in front of a wave of data and probing the mysteries of the universe’s most-ancient galaxies side-by-side with swirling, colorful simulations of galaxy formation—seeing what aligns with expectations and what needs further interrogation. where A, μ 1, μ 2, σ 1, and σ 2 are fixed at the following values derived from a training set of 74 SNe Ia observed in the optical (ugriBV) by the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP), 54 of which also had NIR (YJH) coverage (see C. Burns et al. Supernovae are essential to understanding the chemical evolution of the universe. It is a segmented mirror telescope that employs seven of today’s largest stiff monolith mirrors as segments. PDF. We present final natural-system optical (ugriBV) and near-infrared (YJH) photometry of 134 supernovae (SNe) with probable white dwarf progenitors that were observed in 2004-2009 as part of the first stage of the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP-I). To get a grasp of dark energy, it is extremely important that scientists get the most accurate measurements possible of Type Ia supernovae. Six years after its initial discovery—reported in The Astronomer’s Telegram by Carnegie’s Thomas Holoien—the researchers, led by Anna Payne of University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, can now say that the phenomenon they observed, called ASASSN-14ko, is a periodically recurring flare from the center of a galaxy more than 570 million light-years away in the. In particular, this paper focuses on the CSP-II NIR spectroscopy program, describing the survey strategy, instrumental setups, data reduction, sample characteristics, and future analyses on the data set. * The zero points (zp) are in the sense that m = -2.5log(F) + zp, where F is the photon flux through filter S X: ** The color terms are used to convert standard to natural photometry: We therefore propose to embark on a long-term program, the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP), with the goal of obtaining exceedingly-well calibrated optical/near-infrared light curves and optical spectroscopy of over 200 Type~Ia and Type~II supernovae. The Carnegie Supernova Project has developed an analysis package, written in python, called SNooPy. Campanas Observatory During the next 5 years the Low-Z Carnegie Supernova Project aims to obtain high-quality gap-free optical/NIR light-curves and spectro-photometry of ~220 nearby Type Ia, II, and Ibc supernovae, with the purpose to For more see  http://instrumentation.obs.carnegiescience.edu/. I'm a research associate at the Carnegie Observatories and primarily work on the Carnegie Supernova Project.My research interests involve cosmology, the distance scale, inter-stellar dust, and applying numerical techniques to solve scientific problems. His goal is to use these first principles and computational approaches to forecast evolutionary outcomes of populations under climate change to anticipate potential future, Mistaken identity: A presumed supernova is actually something much rarer, Most-distant galaxy helps elucidate the early universe, The “workspace of the future,” Carnegie’s VizLab will unlock the secrets of the universe, Carnegie Institution for Science, 1530 P Street NW, Washington DC 20005 P: (202)-387-6400 F: (202)-387-8092. Problems with Small Area Surveys: Lensing Covariance of Supernova Distance Measurements Asantha Cooray,1 Dragan Huterer,2 and Daniel E. Holz2,3 1Center for Cosmology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA 2Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Pasadena, CA— The mysterious Blue Ring Nebula has puzzled astronomers since it was discovered in 2004. append (setup_fn) if os. Phillip Cleves’ Ph.D. research was on determining the genetic changes that drive morphological evolution. She has been a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, CA, since 2018. Wendy Freedman. The data consist of well-sampled, high-precision optical (ugriBV) and near-infrared (NIR; YJHK{sub s} ) light curves in a well-understood photometric system. A short summary of this paper. A portal to fake universes may sound like science fiction, but it is now a reality at the Carnegie Observatories. Our basic knowledge of supernovae comes from the study of their photometric and spectroscopic properties. The Carnegie Supernova Project II is an NSF-funded, five-year program to obtain optical and near-infrared observations of 100-150 Type Ia supernovae located in the smooth Hubble flow. If the universe were gravity-dominated then it should be decelerating. It is not a fixed altorithm for fitting lightcurves, but rather a collection of tools that are useful for building your own fitter (or fitting interactively). THE CARNEGIE SUPERNOVA PROJECT: FIRST PHOTOMETRY DATA RELEASE OF LOW-REDSHIFT TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE. The work was undertaken as part of the Carnegie Supernova Project, a National Science Foundation-funded effort to study Type Ia supernovae, which are essential for understanding the chemical history of the universe, as well as fundamental to calculating the rate of its expansion. 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