Session 171. Supernovae

Poster, Thursday, January 12, 2006, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

171.01 Swift Supernova Observations

P. J. Brown (Penn State), S. T. Holland (GSFC/USRA), P. W. A. Roming (Penn State), P. A. Milne (Steward Observatory), Swift Team

171.02 Texas Supernova Search: A Wide Field Search for Nearby SNe

R. M. Quimby, F. Castro (U Texas), C. L. Gerardy (Imperial College, London), P. Hoeflich, S. J. Kannappan, P. Mondol, M. Sellers, J. C. Wheeler (U Texas)

171.03 Status of the Candidate Search for the Nearby Supernova Factory

R. A. Scalzo, G. Aldering, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, S. Bailey, D. Kocevski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R.C. Thomas, L. Wang, B. A. Weaver (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), P. Antilogus, S. Gilles, R. Pain, R. Pereira (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), N. Blanc, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, L. Sauge, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), C. Bonnaud, E. Pecontal (Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon), R. Kessler (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics / University of Chicago), C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer (Yale University), Nearby Supernova Factory Collaboration

171.04 Spectral Data Acquisition for the Nearby Supernova Factory

B. C. Lee, G. Aldering, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, S. Bongard, D. Kocevski, S. Loken, P. Nugent, S. Perlmutter, R. Scalzo, R. C. Thomas, L. Wang, B. A. Weaver (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), P. Antilogus, S. Gilles, R. Pain, R. Pereira (Laboratoire de Physique Nucleaire et de Haute Energies de Paris), N. Blanc, Y. Copin, E. Gangler, L. Sauge, G. Smadja (Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon), C. Bonnaud, E. Pecontal (Centre de Recherche Astronomique de Lyon), R. Kessler (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago, IL), C. Baltay, D. Rabinowitz, A. Bauer (Yale), Nearby Supernova Factory Collaboration

171.05 Infrared Light Curves of Nearby Supernovae with the Peters Automated Infrared Imaging Telescope (PAIRITEL)

A.S. Friedman, M. Modjaz, W.M. Wood-Vasey, C.H. Blake, R.P. Kirshner, P. Challis, E.E. Falco (Harvard-CfA), J.S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), M.F. Skrutskie (U. of Virginia), CfA Supernova Group Team, PAIRITEL Collaboration

171.06 Pre-maximum Lightcurves of type Ia Supernovae from the SuperMACHO Project

A. Garg, C. Stubbs (Harvard), M. Huber (LLNL), A. Rest (CTIO/NOAO), P. Challis, M. Woods-Vasey, S. Blondin (Harvard), J.L. Prieto (Ohio State), A. Becker, R. Covarrubias, A. Miceli (U. Washington), G. Miknaitis (FNAL), C. Smith, K. Olsen, N. Suntzeff, C. Aguilera (CTIO/NOAO), K. Cook, S. Nikolaev (LLNL), A. Clocchiatti, D. Minniti, L. Morelli (P. Univ. Catolica), P. Welch (McMaster)

171.07 Spectroscopy of High-Redshift Supernovae from the ESSENCE Project: The First Four Years

R. J. Foley (UC Berkeley), ESSENCE Collaboration

171.08 Comparative Direct Analysis of Type~Ia Supernova Spectra. II. Maximum Light

J. Parrent, D. Branch, L.C. Dang, N. Hall, W. Ketchum, M. Melakayil, M. Troxel, E. Baron, D. Jeffery (University of Oklahoma)

171.09 Optical Spectroscopy of Type Ia Supernovae

T. Matheson (NOAO), R.P. Kirshner, P. Challis (CfA), S. Jha (U.C. Berkeley), P.M. Garnavich (Notre Dame), P. Berlind, M.L. Calkins (FLWO)

171.10 Integration of Near-Maximum-Light Type Ia Supernova Spectra as a Method of High-z Identification

M. A. Troxel, W. R. Ketchum, D. Branch (University of Oklahoma), P. Garnavich (University of Notre Dame), E. Baron, Y. Wang (University of Oklahoma)

171.11 Preliminary Spectral Analysis of SN 1999dn

W. R. Ketchum, E. Baron (University of Oklahoma)

171.12 High-resolution spectroscopy of the ejecta-ring collision in SN 1987A.

P. Lundqvist, P. Gröningsson, C. Fransson, T. Nymark (Stockholm Observatory), SN 1987A ESO Echelle Data Team

171.13 The Late-Time Evolution of SN 2002hh

G. C. Clayton (LSU), D. L. Welch (McMaster U.)

171.14 The Effects of Spectral Lines on Magnitudes and Colors of Type Ia Supernovae

N. R. Hall, D. Branch, E. Baron (The University of Oklahoma)

171.15 Polarized Line Profiles as Diagnostics of Circumstellar Geometry in Type IIn Supernovae

J.L. Hoffman (UC Berkeley), P. Nugent (LBL), D.C. Leonard (Caltech), A.V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley)

171.16 Radio Observations of Supernovae 2004dj and 2004et

B. C. Kaster, M. T. Kelley (Marquette U.), N. Panagia (STScI), R. A. Sramek (NRAO), C. J. Stockdale (Marquette U.), S. D. Van Dyk (Spitzer/Cal Tech), K. W. Weiler (NRL)

171.17 Calculating Nucleosynthesis by Post-Processing with Tracer Particles

G. C. Jordan, N. Hearn, B. Gallacher, T. Plewa (ASC FLASH CENTER, University of Chicago)

171.18 Do Supernovae Produce Dust? New SEEDS Results on SNe 2002hh and 2003gd

B.E.K. Sugerman (STScI), SEEDS Collaboration

171.19 Neutronization and Energetics of Type Ia Supernovae

I.R. Seitenzahl, F. Peng, D.M. Townsley (University of Chicago), A.C. Calder (Flash Center, University of Chicago)

171.20 Does Metallicity Affect the Fate of Massive Stars?

R. Covarrubias, J. Dalcanton (University of Washington), M. Hamuy (Universidad de Chile), A. Clocchiatti (P. Universidad Catolica de Chile)