RST·DATA

Core Community Survey · High Latitude Time Domain Survey

Extended Component

Dark energy, via Type Ia supernovae

What this is

Extends the time baseline beyond the core campaign.

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 Extended Component will list here as MAST publishes them.

Defined parameters

Survey
High Latitude Time Domain Survey
Program ID
CCS-HLTDS
Allocated time
7.12 days
Cadence
Filter-dependent, as short as ~5 days
Spectroscopy
prism
Survey total
180.32 days total

Source

Figures are from the ROTAC survey definition.

ROTAC recommendation · HLTDS implementationMAST archive