Core Community Survey · High Latitude Time Domain Survey
Core Component
Dark energy, via Type Ia supernovae
What this is
The main campaign, and the great majority of the survey's allocated time.
Two fields revisited every few days to catch supernovae rising and fading, with prism spectroscopy to classify them. Target: ~25,000 Type Ia below redshift 2.
No survey products yet. Products for Core Component will list here as MAST publishes them.
Defined parameters
Source
Figures are from the ROTAC survey definition.
ROTAC recommendation · HLTDS implementationMAST archive