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The Core Collapse Supernova Rate In The Sdss-Ii Supernova Survey, Matthew Frederick Taylor
The Core Collapse Supernova Rate In The Sdss-Ii Supernova Survey, Matthew Frederick Taylor
Wayne State University Dissertations
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey II Supernova Survey (SDSS-II SN), though designed as a type Ia supernova search for cosmology, also discovered a large sample of core collapse supernovae (CCSN). I use the SDSS-II SN data to measure the volumetric CCSN rate in the redshift range (0.03 < z < 0.09), finding a volume-averaged rate of 0.98±0.18 ×10⊃−4⊃h⊂70⊂⊃3⊃yr⊃−1⊃Mpc⊃−3⊃. The CCSN luminosity function is also extracted from the data, and its implications on the cosmic star formation history are considered.