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Supernovæ and Transients with Euclid and the European ELT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

Isobel Hook
Isobel Hook*
Affiliation:
Oxford Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3RH, U.K. email: [email protected] INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Monte Porzio Catone, Italy
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Abstract

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The prospects are described for studies of large samples of supernovæ and other variable objects with two proposed future facilities: (1) the European Extremely Large Telescope, a general-purpose 40-m-class ground-based optical-IR telescope, and (2) Euclid, an M-class mission within ESA's Cosmic Vision programme, primarily for cosmology. The capabilities and status of the two facilities are briefly described. Their suitability for the study of time-varying objects in general, and of supernovæ in particular, is discussed. It is shown that Euclid has the potential for NIR imaging of a few thousand Type Ia supernovæ to intermediate z, while the E-ELT will be capable of spectroscopic and classification measurements of Type Ia supernovæ to z=4.

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Telescopes
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Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 7 , Symposium S285: New Horizons in Time-Domain Astronomy , September 2011 , pp. 63 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2012

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