Roman CCS White Paper: Identifying high-redshift pair-instability supernovae by adding sparse F213 filter observations
Abstract
Pair-instability supernovae (PISNe) are explosions of very massive stars that may have played a critical role in the chemical evolution and reionization of the early Universe. In order to quantify their roles, it is required to know the PISN event rate at z > 6. Although Roman Space Telescope has a capability to discover PISNe at z > 6, identifying rare high-redshift PISN candidates among many other transients is challenging. In order to efficiently identify PISN candidates at z > 6, we propose to add sparse F213 observations reaching 26.5 mag (or deeper) every half year in the High Latitude Time Domain Survey. By adding the F213 information, PISNe at z > 6 can be efficiently identified in the color-magnitude diagram.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- June 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2306.17212
- Bibcode:
- 2023arXiv230617212M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted as a Roman Core Community Survey White Paper