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High Redshift Supernova Rates (2004)

Abstract
We use a sample of 42 supernovae detected with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on-board the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey to measure the rate of core collapse supernovae to z~0.7 and type Ia supernovae to z~1.6. This significantly increases the redshift range where supernova rates have been estimated from observations. The rate of core collapse supernovae can be used as an independent probe of the cosmic star formation rate. Based on the observations of 17 core collapse supernovae, we measure an increase in the core collapse supernova rate by a factor of 1.6 in the range 0.3. Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal

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Download http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406547
Archiv arXiv (United States)
Keywords Astrophysics
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