The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Search Algorithm and Follow-up Observations

Understand

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey has identified a large number of new transient sources in a 300 sq.

• deg.
• region along the celestial equator during its first two seasons of a three-season campaign.
• Multi-band (ugriz) light curves were measured for most of the sources, which include solar system objects, Galactic variable stars, active galactic nuclei, supernovae (SNe), and other astronomical transients.