SUSPEND: A Database of SUpernova Spectra and other Supernova-Relevant Data PENDing Further Analysis

Sections

1. Introduction
2. Supernovae by Epoch
3. Template Lightcurves
4. Supernova Models
5. Useful Lists and Internal Links
6. Papers of Current Interest by Me Including Works in Progress
7. Useful Programs by Me
8. Supernova-Relevant Sites
9. Supernova-Relevant Conferences
10. Supernova Folk
11. Supernova Images

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Introduction

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SUSPEND is primarily a database of supernova spectra in ASCII format.

The spectra have been gathered over the years---except for those that I've lost: e.g., all the SN 1987A polarization spectra.

For the spectra see Supernovae by Epoch below.

Recently, I've been putting the spectra into html files with rather complete header information and a figure. These files are in 2-column format. For each html spectrum (except for the html_no spectra), there is also in the /dif subdirectory a corresponding dif spectrum that is the locaclly-normalized version of the spectrum in 2 columns: wavelength, and locally-normalized flux. There is a figure of the dif spectrum in the header with the original spectrum.

The number of html-formatted spectra will grow with time.

The formats of the other spectra are a hodgepodge and the header information is of various quality---caveat downloader.

The particular supernova directories have no index.html files, but there is sometimes a README or other file that you can click on to get other information for that supernova.

As well as spectra, there are some dated template supernova light curves, a few supernova models, useful lists and internal links, papers of current interest by me including works in progress, and useful programs developed by me.

There are also links to supernova-relevant sites, conferences on supernovae and related topics in reverse time order, and supernova folk.

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Supernovae by Epoch

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1. 1000--1885
2. 1885--1919
3. 1920s
4. 1930s
5. 1940s
6. 1950s
7. 1960s
8. 1970s
9. 1980s
10. 1990s
11. 2000s

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Template Lightcurves

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1. Light curve directory. Not much there really.
2. The old Doggett & Branch B light curve for Type II-L supernovae
3. The old Doggett & Branch B light curve for Type II-P supernovae
4. The old Doggett & Branch B light curve for Type Ia supernovae
5. The old Bruno Leibundgut template light curves for Type Ia supernovae

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Supernova Models

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1. Models of EB & DGS Still private.
2. Hoeflich's model M36
3. Roepke's model c3_3d_256_10s This model is published in `` ``Following multi-dimensional type Ia supernova explosion models to homologous expansion'' Roepke, F. K. 2005, A&A, 432, 969, astro-ph/0408296.
4. Solar Composition
5. W7 The famous, the hoary, the model W7.

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Useful Lists and Internal Links

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1. Days of the Year Often useful in supernova work.
2. Designation of Supernovae The stupid, old alphabetic system.
3. Grotrian diagrams.
4. listdata A directory of pretty much standard, unchanging lists and data.
5. List of files in the ./spectra tree. This is a heterogeneous mess of data files, instructions, and messages.
6. List of spectra in html format.
7. List of Type Ia supernova and spectrum pair DIFF1 values. Limited to the period before -4 days relative to B maximum. Very preliminary.
8. List of Type Ia supernova and spectrum pair DIFF2 values. Limited to the period before -4 days relative to B maximum. Very preliminary.
9. List of hydrogen-deficient (IIb, Ib, Ibc, Ic, Ic_hyp) supernova and spectrum pair DIFF1 values .
10. List of hydrogen-deficient (IIb, Ib, Ibc, Ic, Ic_hyp) supernova and spectrum pair DIFF1 values. Limited to the period before 10 days postmaximum.
11. List of hydrogen-deficient (IIb, Ib, Ibc, Ic, Ic_hyp) supernova and spectrum pair DIFF2 values.
12. List of hydrogen-deficient (IIb, Ib, Ibc, Ic, Ic_hyp) supernova and spectrum pair DIFF2 values. Limited to the period before 10 days postmaximum.
13. Published Supernova Spectra to 2006jan05.

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Papers of Current Interest by Me Including Works in Progress

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1. A Study of Energy Deposition Estimators for Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer A nearly-ready for submission draft paper. It gives a review of Monte Carlo radiative transfer in the plane-parallel grey atmosphere among other things.
2. A Review of Supernova Atmosphere Modeling: Radiative Transfer and All That given at MARAC: MidAmerican Regional Astrophysics Conference as of last update, 2007 April 13--14. See also conference images at MARAC Images.
3. Giant Steps Papers and Talks.
4. Goodness-of-Fit Tests DIFF1 and DIFF2 for Locally Normalized Supernova Spectra This is the astro-ph version of the first paper using DIFF1 and DIFF2 and locally normalized spectra.
5. ON SN 2003fg: THE PROBABLE SUPER-CHANDRASEKHAR-MASS SN Ia A still in-development version.

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Useful Programs by Me

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1. aalib A library of fortran95 procedures that I've created for my personal use. I hereby give blanket permission for personal, educational, or research use to anyone who would like to use them: express permission is not required, but I retain copyright.
   ---No guarantees, no documentation, no index file.
   ---Read the aalib.f file for a short description.
   ---Files with an extra t at the end of the name are test programs of the procedures.
   ---Files with an extra t at the start of the name are test programs for trivial things.
   
2. desig.f A fortran program for producing a table of supernova designations.
3. difpac.tar This is a tar file containing the DIFF package which is used for local normalizing and comparing supernova spectra. The comparison is done using the current version of the DIFF test. A description of installation and use of the package is given by Jeffery et al. (2007b). Local normalization and older DIFF tests are described in detail by Jeffery et al. (2007a) The directory tree of SUSPEND containing all spectra we have currently in locally-normalized form is in the gzipped tar file sn.tar.gz. This directory tree can be used by the DIFF package. There is lots of other stuff in the directory tree too---but you don't have worry about that.
4. SYNOW with Local Normalization (SYNOW-LN) This gzipped tar file contains a new version of SYNOW with an option to create a locally-normalized version of the output spectrum. The tar file is complete, except it doesn't contain the linelist directory. That directory must be obtained from downloading the stardard tar file of SYNOW. SYNOW-LN has been tested, but not thoroughly tested. We will try to fix any anomalies if they appear.

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Supernova-Relevant Sites

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1. ADS: The NASA Astrophysics Data System query form Supernovae are frequently written about in papers.
2. Asiago The Asiago-Padova (Padua) Group and the Asiago Supernova Catalog.
3. Astro-ph The ultimate site for papers on supernovae and everything else astro.
4. CfA List of Supernovae
5. CfA Supernova Archive
6. Historical Supernovae The Crab Nebula SN (SN 1054), Tycho (SN 1572), Kepler (SN 1604), Cas A (SN 1667?): and all the other good old supernovae.
7. IAU: Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams Lots of supernova discovery and preliminary observations appear in the IAUCs (IAU circulars).
8. IUE Final Archive This archive has IUE spectra for several supernovae. Alas they are in FITS format and need decoding. SNE: ESO 289- 18 (whatever that is), SN 1979C_II, SN 1980K, SN 1980N, NGC 4536 (?), SN 1982B, IUE UNKNOWN NGC 1265 (?), SN 1983G, SN 1983N_Ib, SN 1983N, NGC 5236 (?), SN 1984J, SN 1984J, SN 1985L, SN 1986G, SN 1987A (a quasi-infinity), SN 1990M, SN 1990N, SN 1990W, SN 1991T, SN 1991bg, SN 1992A, SN 1992ad, SN 1993J, SN 1994I.
9. LBNL Isotopes Project - LUNDS Universitet WWW Table of Radioactive Isotopes Radioactive isotopes are often relevant to SNe. In particular, Ni-56 and it's daughter nuclide Co-56. They are part of the all-important decay chain Ni-56 to Co-56 to stable Fe-56.
10. Julian Date Converter of the US Navy Observatory. One frequently has convert back and forth between UT date and Julian date in supernova work.
11. Leda: A Database for Physics of Galaxies Galaxies host supernovae, and so this site is frequently consulted.
12. Marcos Montes' Supernova page A wealth of supernova links, but not been updated since 2003oct07.
13. NIST: Atomic Spectra Database Supernova spectra frequently have lines, and so this database is often consulted.
14. NIST: Atomic Weights, etc.
15. NIST: CODATA 2002 fundamental constants
16. References Many of these are relevant to supernova reseach.
17. SNfactor The Nearby Supernova Factory. Any year now they will provide good spectra and light curves for hundreds of supernovae.
18. SN Ia UV Spectra Now that STIS looks like toast, maybe we're are nearly caput? We are.
19. SUSPECT The University of Oklahoma supernova spectra database. In time it should be an excellent resource. See SUSPECT: index. Maybe one day the URL will be SUSPECT, but that is still not working.
20. SYNOW This site allows you to download SYNOW which is a highly parameterized radiative transfer code for supernovae. It's fast, easy to use, and gives information about line identities and velocity structure. The original code was written by David Branch and has been much updated by others since then.

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Supernova-Relevant Conferences

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1. SUPERNOVAE IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE: CELEBRATING 10,000 DAYS OF SUPERNOVA 1987A 2014aug11--15, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia, off to Oz.
2. Workshop on SNe Ia, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 2014 Feb10--12 (M--W)
3. Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts 2013 Oct.14 - Nov.15, 2013 Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
4. IAU Symposium 296: Supernova Environmental Impacts Raichak-on-Ganges near Kolkata, India, January 7-11, 2013.
5. ESO/MPA/MPE Workshop on Supernovae, Supernovae Illuminating the Universe: from individuals to Populations", Garching, Germany, 2012sep10--14 It will be a gala occasion.
6. IAU Symposium 281: Binary Paths to Type Ia Supernova Explosions 2011jul04--11, Padova, Italy. Maybe I should go. Too late for cheap fee and the whole trip is 2K at least.
7. Taking Supernova Cosmology into the Next Decade 2010aug08--22, Aspen. Not a lot of information about this conference yet.
8. Stellar Death and Supernovae 2009aug17--21. In honor of Robert Kirshner's 60 birthday. The in-progress version.
9. 24th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics Vancouver, 2008dec07--12
10. Bernard's Cosmic Stories, 2006 June 26--30, Valencia, Spain A Bernard Jones Fest with some supernova interest.
11. Cefalu Conference 2008sep07--19: The second week is devoted to Supernovae, GRBs, and Novae. Some good Cefalu images at 1, 2, 3 (slow), and 4. See also the images at Cefalu.
12. Aspen Workshop: Supernovae as Cosmological Distance Indicators 2007jun18--jul01.
13. Origins of Dark Energy 2007may14--20.
14. Paths to Exploding Stars: Accretion and Eruption (Conference), 2007mar19--23 at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara.
15. Twenty Years after SN1987A: What did we learn, what will the next Supernova teach us? February 23, 24 and 25, 2007, Hilton Waikoloa, Hawaii. Sounds like another conference for tenured-folk with lots of travel money. Nothing much on supernova radiative transfer.
16. Supernova 1987A: 20 Years After: Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursters Aspen, Colorado, 2007 February 19-23.
17. Barcelona Dark Energy Conference 2006aug07-15
18. Cefalu Supernova Conference 2006jun11--18 The proceedings will be/are published by AIP. Some good Cefalu images at 1, 2, 3 (slow), and 4. See also the images at Cefalu.
19. 2005sep07--09: Type Ia Supernova Workshop, Berkeley Held at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. I attended, but presented nothing.

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Supernova Folk

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1. Dr. A. Alberdi Valéncia. (deadlink)
2. Prof. J.M. Blondin NCSU.
3. Prof. Eddie Baron University of Oklahoma.
4. Prof. David Branch University of Oklahoma.
5. Prof. Stephen Bruenn Florida Atlantic University.
6. Prof. Adam Burrows University of Arizona.
7. Prof. Roger Chevalier University of Virginia.
8. Prof. S. Colgate Los Alamos (dead link) and at New Mexico Tech.
9. Prof. John Cowan University of Oklahoma.
10. Prof. Roberlt Fesen Dartmouth college.
11. Dr. Bryan Gaensler MIT.
12. Lisa Germany ESO, Chile.
13. Prof. Mike Guidry Univerity of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). (deadlink)
14. M. Hamuy Carnegie Observatories. (deadlink)
15. Peter Hauschildt University of Hamburg.
16. Dr. Marc. Herant Los Alamos. (deadlink)
17. Prof. W. Herbst Wesleyan University. (deadlink)
18. Prof. Peter Hoeflich Florida State University, Tallahassee
19. Prof. Craig Hogan University of Washington. (deadlink)
20. Dr. David Jeffery University of Oklahoma
21. Wayne Johnson's Mr. Galaxy's Supernovae (deadlink)
22. Prof. Robert Kirshner Harvard University.
23. László Kiss JATE University. (deadlink)
24. Kevin Krisciunas Notre Dame.
25. Prof. James M. Lattimer SUNY-SB.
26. Dr. Paolo Mazzali Trieste Observatory.
27. Prof. Richard McCray JILA/Colorado.
28. Dr. Anthony Mezzacappa Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). (deadlink)
29. Dr. Peter Nugent Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
30. Dr. Juha Peltoniemi's Supernova Neutrino Page (U. of Helsinki) (deadlink)
31. Dr. Mark Phillips Las Campanas Observatory. (deadlink)
32. Prof. S. Pineault Laval. (deadlink)
33. Dr. Phil Plait
34. Dr. Mike Richmond Rochester Inst. of Technology. His list of SNe since 1989.
35. Dr. Eduardo Ros-Ibarra MPIfR, Bonn.
36. Prof. Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente University of Barcelona.
37. Dr. Stuart Ryder UKIRT.
38. Dr. Brian Schmidt MSSSO.
39. Lisa Germany MSSSO.
40. Prof. C. Stubbs University of Washington. (deadlink)
41. Prof. Peter G. Sutherland McMaster University.
42. Dr. Nick Suntzeff CTIO.
43. Prof. F.Douglas Swesty Stonybrook.
44. Dr. M. Pérez Torres València. (deadlink)
45. Prof. S. van den Bergh DAO and University of Victoria. (deadlink)
46. Dr. Schulyer Van Dyk IPAC.
47. Prof. R.V. Wagoner Stanford.
48. Dr. Kurt Weiler Naval Research Laboratory.
49. Prof. Craig Wheeler University of Texas, Austin.
50. Prof. Stan Woosley Univerity of California, Santa Cruz.

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Supernova Images

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1. SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

   Modern Supernova 1987A: the bright, pointy star near the center. SN 1987A is in a dwarf galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud that is a satellite of our galaxy. Many of the stars in this picture are foreground stars in our Galaxy. The pink region is the 30 Doradus, a bright emission region gas in the LMC. It's a star formation region. Incidentally this most famous of all modern supernovae was discovered by Ian Shelton, the brother of my UNLV colleague David Shelton.

   Credit: Marcelo Bass, CTIO/NOAO/AURA/NSF .

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