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PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA
Volume 34, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/pasa.2017.24
Keywords
(cosmology:) dark energy; methods: data analysis; (stars:) supernovae: general
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- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) [CE110001020]
- ARC Laureate [FL0992131]
- Robert Martin Ayers Sciences Fund
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The SkyMapper 1.3 m telescope at Siding Spring Observatory has now begun regular operations. Alongside the Southern Sky Survey, a comprehensive digital survey of the entire southern sky, SkyMapper will carry out a search for supernovae and other transients. The search strategy, covering a total footprint area of similar to 2 000 deg(2) with a cadence of <= 5 d, is optimised for discovery and follow-up of low-redshift type Ia supernovae to constrain cosmic expansion and peculiar velocities. We describe the search operations and infrastructure, including a parallelised software pipeline to discover variable objects in difference imaging; simulations of the performance of the survey over its lifetime; public access to discovered transients; and some first results from the Science Verification data.
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