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Article: The Young Supernova Experiment: Survey Goals, Overview, and Operations

TitleThe Young Supernova Experiment: Survey Goals, Overview, and Operations
Authors
KeywordsSupernovae
Cosmology
Sky surveys
Transient detection
Issue Date2021
PublisherAmerican Astronomical Society, co-published with Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/
Citation
The Astrophysical Journal, 2021, v. 908 n. 2, p. article no. 143 How to Cite?
AbstractTime-domain science has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with tens of thousands of new supernovae (SNe) discovered each year. However, several observational domains, including SNe within days or hours of explosion and faint, red transients, are just beginning to be explored. Here we present the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), a novel optical time-domain survey on the Pan-STARRS telescopes. Our survey is designed to obtain well-sampled griz light curves for thousands of transient events up to z ≈ 0.2. This large sample of transients with four-band light curves will lay the foundation for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, providing a critical training set in similar filters and a well-calibrated low-redshift anchor of cosmologically useful SNe Ia to benefit dark energy science. As the name suggests, YSE complements and extends other ongoing time-domain surveys by discovering fast-rising SNe within a few hours to days of explosion. YSE is the only current four-band time-domain survey and is able to discover transients as faint as ~21.5 mag in gri and ~20.5 mag in z, depths that allow us to probe the earliest epochs of stellar explosions. YSE is currently observing approximately 750 deg2 of sky every 3 days, and we plan to increase the area to 1500 deg2 in the near future. When operating at full capacity, survey simulations show that YSE will find ~5000 new SNe per year and at least two SNe within 3 days of explosion per month. To date, YSE has discovered or observed 8.3% of the transient candidates reported to the International Astronomical Union in 2020. We present an overview of YSE, including science goals, survey characteristics, and a summary of our transient discoveries to date.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/297235
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2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.905
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dc.contributor.authorJones, DO-
dc.contributor.authorFoley, RJ-
dc.contributor.authorNarayan, G-
dc.contributor.authorHjorth, J-
dc.contributor.authorHuber, ME-
dc.contributor.authorAleo, PD-
dc.contributor.authorAlexander, KD-
dc.contributor.authorAngus, CR-
dc.contributor.authorAuchettl, K-
dc.contributor.authorBaldassare, VF-
dc.contributor.authorBruun, SH-
dc.contributor.authorChambers, KC-
dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, D-
dc.contributor.authorCoppejans, DL-
dc.contributor.authorCoulter, DA-
dc.contributor.authorDeMarchi, L-
dc.contributor.authorDimitriadis, G-
dc.contributor.authorDrout, MR-
dc.contributor.authorEngel, A-
dc.contributor.authorFrench, KD-
dc.contributor.authorGagliano, A-
dc.contributor.authorGall, C-
dc.contributor.authorHung, T-
dc.contributor.authorIzzo, L-
dc.contributor.authorJacobson-Galán, WV-
dc.contributor.authorKilpatrick, CD-
dc.contributor.authorKorhonen, H-
dc.contributor.authorMargutti, R-
dc.contributor.authorRaimundo, SI-
dc.contributor.authorRamirez-Ruiz, E-
dc.contributor.authorRest, A-
dc.contributor.authorRojas-Bravo, C-
dc.contributor.authorSiebert, MR-
dc.contributor.authorSmartt, SJ-
dc.contributor.authorSmith, KW-
dc.contributor.authorTerreran, G-
dc.contributor.authorWang, Q-
dc.contributor.authorWojtak, R-
dc.contributor.authorAgnello, A-
dc.contributor.authorAnsari, Z-
dc.contributor.authorArendse, N-
dc.contributor.authorBaldeschi, A-
dc.contributor.authorBlanchard, PK-
dc.contributor.authorBrethauer, D-
dc.contributor.authorBright, JS-
dc.contributor.authorBrown, JS-
dc.contributor.authorde Boer, TJL-
dc.contributor.authorDodd, SA-
dc.contributor.authorFairlamb, JR-
dc.contributor.authorGrillo, C-
dc.contributor.authorHajela, A-
dc.contributor.authorHede, C-
dc.contributor.authorKolborg, AN-
dc.contributor.authorLaw-Smith, JAP-
dc.contributor.authorLin, CC-
dc.contributor.authorMagnier, EA-
dc.contributor.authorMalanchev, K-
dc.contributor.authorMatthews, D-
dc.contributor.authorMockler, B-
dc.contributor.authorMuthukrishna, D-
dc.contributor.authorPan, YC-
dc.contributor.authorPfister, HIV-
dc.contributor.authorRamanah, DK-
dc.contributor.authorRest, S-
dc.contributor.authorSarangi, A-
dc.contributor.authorSchrøder, SL-
dc.contributor.authorStauffer, C-
dc.contributor.authorStroh, MC-
dc.contributor.authorTaggart, KL-
dc.contributor.authorTinyanont, S-
dc.contributor.authorWainscoat, RJ-
dc.contributor.author(Young Supernova Experiment)-
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-08T07:16:05Z-
dc.date.available2021-03-08T07:16:05Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationThe Astrophysical Journal, 2021, v. 908 n. 2, p. article no. 143-
dc.identifier.issn0004-637X-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/297235-
dc.description.abstractTime-domain science has undergone a revolution over the past decade, with tens of thousands of new supernovae (SNe) discovered each year. However, several observational domains, including SNe within days or hours of explosion and faint, red transients, are just beginning to be explored. Here we present the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), a novel optical time-domain survey on the Pan-STARRS telescopes. Our survey is designed to obtain well-sampled griz light curves for thousands of transient events up to z ≈ 0.2. This large sample of transients with four-band light curves will lay the foundation for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, providing a critical training set in similar filters and a well-calibrated low-redshift anchor of cosmologically useful SNe Ia to benefit dark energy science. As the name suggests, YSE complements and extends other ongoing time-domain surveys by discovering fast-rising SNe within a few hours to days of explosion. YSE is the only current four-band time-domain survey and is able to discover transients as faint as ~21.5 mag in gri and ~20.5 mag in z, depths that allow us to probe the earliest epochs of stellar explosions. YSE is currently observing approximately 750 deg2 of sky every 3 days, and we plan to increase the area to 1500 deg2 in the near future. When operating at full capacity, survey simulations show that YSE will find ~5000 new SNe per year and at least two SNe within 3 days of explosion per month. To date, YSE has discovered or observed 8.3% of the transient candidates reported to the International Astronomical Union in 2020. We present an overview of YSE, including science goals, survey characteristics, and a summary of our transient discoveries to date.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherAmerican Astronomical Society, co-published with Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/-
dc.relation.ispartofThe Astrophysical Journal-
dc.rightsThe Astrophysical Journal. Copyright © IOP Publishing.-
dc.rightsThis is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article published in [insert name of journal]. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI].-
dc.subjectSupernovae-
dc.subjectCosmology-
dc.subjectSky surveys-
dc.subjectTransient detection-
dc.titleThe Young Supernova Experiment: Survey Goals, Overview, and Operations-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailPfister, HIV: pfister@hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.doi10.3847/1538-4357/abd7f5-
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dc.identifier.volume908-
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dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 143-
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dc.identifier.isiWOS:000619790600001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-

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