%0 Generic %1 mould2017detection %A Mould, Jeremy %A Abbott, Tim %A Cooke, Jeff %A Curtin, Chris %A Katsianis, Antonios %A Koekemoer, Anton %A Tescari, Edoardo %A Uddin, Syed %A Wang, Lifan %A Wyithe, Stuart %D 2017 %K high redshift supernovae %R 10.1016/j.scib.2017.04.007 %T Detection of a possible superluminous supernova in the epoch of reionization %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05967 %X An interesting transient has been detected in one of our three Dark Energy Camera deep fields. Observations of these deep fields take advantage of the high red sensitivity of DECam on the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory Blanco telescope. The survey includes the Y band with rest wavelength 1430\AA at z = 6. Survey fields (the Prime field 0555-6130, the 16hr field 1600-75 and the SUDSS New Southern Field) are deeper in Y than other infrared surveys. They are circumpolar, allowing all night to be used efficiently, exploiting the moon tolerance of 1 micron observations to minimize conflict with the Dark Energy Survey. As an i-band dropout (meaning that the flux decrement shortward of Lyman alpha is in the i bandpass), the transient we report here is a supernova candidate with z ~ 6, with a luminosity comparable to the brightest known current epoch superluminous supernova (i.e., ~ 2 x 10^11 solar luminosities).

@misc{mould2017detection, abstract = {An interesting transient has been detected in one of our three Dark Energy Camera deep fields. Observations of these deep fields take advantage of the high red sensitivity of DECam on the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory Blanco telescope. The survey includes the Y band with rest wavelength 1430{\AA} at z = 6. Survey fields (the Prime field 0555-6130, the 16hr field 1600-75 and the SUDSS New Southern Field) are deeper in Y than other infrared surveys. They are circumpolar, allowing all night to be used efficiently, exploiting the moon tolerance of 1 micron observations to minimize conflict with the Dark Energy Survey. As an i-band dropout (meaning that the flux decrement shortward of Lyman alpha is in the i bandpass), the transient we report here is a supernova candidate with z ~ 6, with a luminosity comparable to the brightest known current epoch superluminous supernova (i.e., ~ 2 x 10^11 solar luminosities).}, added-at = {2017-04-21T10:25:31.000+0200}, author = {Mould, Jeremy and Abbott, Tim and Cooke, Jeff and Curtin, Chris and Katsianis, Antonios and Koekemoer, Anton and Tescari, Edoardo and Uddin, Syed and Wang, Lifan and Wyithe, Stuart}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/262e70549172306156098751cd25ced17/miki}, description = {[1704.05967] Detection of a possible superluminous supernova in the epoch of reionization}, doi = {10.1016/j.scib.2017.04.007}, interhash = {1c27d3f07bfdfdee46f00a8c9d90680b}, intrahash = {62e70549172306156098751cd25ced17}, keywords = {high redshift supernovae}, note = {cite arxiv:1704.05967Comment: for publication in Science Bulletin}, timestamp = {2017-04-21T10:25:31.000+0200}, title = {Detection of a possible superluminous supernova in the epoch of reionization}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05967}, year = 2017 }