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Science Update: SN2011fe in M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy) Peter Nugent (LBNL/UCB)
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AAAC Meeting Major Points The integrated role of all 3 agencies in the discovery and follow-up of SN 2011fe. The level of computing required to deliver such discoveries.
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AAAC Meeting PTF (2009-2013) 92 Mpixels, 1” resolution, 2.0” seeing, R/g=21 in 60s 2 cadences SN & Dynamic with g in dark time & R in bright time
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AAAC Meeting PTF Science PTF Key Projects Various SNe Dwarf novae Transients in nearby galaxies Core collapse SNe RR Lyrae Solar system objects CVsAGN AM CVn Blazars Galactic dynamics LIGO & Neutrino transients Flare stars Hostless transients Nearby star kinematics Orphan GRB afterglows Type Ia Supernovae Eclipsing stars and planets Tidal events H-alpha ½ sky survey The power of PTF resides in its diverse science goals and follow-up.
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AAAC Meeting PTF Pipeline 128 MB/90s 50 GB/night
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AAAC Meeting Real-time Pipeline NERSC GLOBAL FILESYSTEM 240TB Data Transfer Nodes Science Gateway Node 2 Science Gateway Node 1 Observatory PTF Collaboration via Web Processing/db Carver 3200 core IBM Subtractions ~1 hour turnaround
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AAAC Meeting PTF: Real or Bogus PTF produces 1 million candidates during a typical night: Most of these are not real Image Artifacts Misalignment of images due to poor sky conditions Image saturation from bright stars 50k are asteroids 1-2k are variable stars 100 supernovae 1-2 new, young supernovae or other explosions Help from Bloom et al. NSF-CDI project: Real-time Classification of Massive Time-series Data Streams
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AAAC Meeting Real or Bogus moon 4096 X 2048 CCD images - over 3000 per night
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AAAC Meeting Real or Bogus 230 bogus candidates, 2 variable stars, 4 asteroids and the youngest Type Ia supernovae observed to date…. PTF10ygu: Caught 2 days after explosion
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AAAC Meeting Citizen Scientists… http:// supernova.galaxyzoo.org keeps chugging along (Smith et al., 2010) Typically we have them scan ~200 candidates in 12 hrs after the night is finished. They get the list of the top 100 real-bogus, top 100 S/N, and top 100 via host-size of all new candidates. PTF11gdm
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AAAC Meeting PTF Sky Coverage 1000 100 0 To date: 1301 Spectroscopically typed supernovae 10 5 Galactic Transients 10 4 Transients in M31 2.5 years, over 1 million images taken. 35 refereed publications.
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AAAC Meeting Peter Nugent 12 SN 2011fe (PTF11kly) 180k views on YouTube, 50+ newspaper articles, PBS Newshour, BBC, NPR…
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AAAC Meeting Peter Nugent 13 SwiftHST SN 2011fe was caught within 11 hrs +/- 20 min. of explosion. First spectra ~24 hr later. Peaked @ mag 9.9, making it the 5th brightest SN in last 100 years.
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AAAC Meeting Peter Nugent 14 SYNAPPS spectrum synthesis fits on NERSC’s Hopper commenced 1 hour after first spectrum was reduced. Finished analysis 30 hours after SN was first detected! Ca II Si II S II Mg II Fe II O I Ca II
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AAAC Meeting Peter Nugent 16 Rules out red giant companions and a lot of double degenerate models.
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AAAC Meeting Peter Nugent 17 HST Pre-imaging of the field where SN 2011fe was found.
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AAAC Meeting Peter Nugent Constraints on the progenitor system. Basically all we can have are a double degenerate system or a low mass main sequence companion. Nature: Nugent et al. and Li et al.
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AAAC Meeting Peter Nugent 19 DOE/HEP: NERSC computing facilities, SCIentific Discovery through Advanced Computing program and staff and scientific leadership in the SN Ia experiment for PTF. NSF: Direct support of PTF and support from the Cyber Enabled Discovery and Innovation Program - real-time classification. NASA: Swift, Chandra and HST for both pre-explosion imaging (optical and x-ray) and follow-up after discovery in the ultra-violet. Agencies
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