The rate of cosmic thermonuclear explosions in the Local Universe

This thesis investigates the volumetric rates of thermonuclear supernovae (SNe) in the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). SN rates are a measure of how frequently stellar explosions occur as a function of cosmological volumes, or host galaxy properties. SNe are powerful cosmological probes; understand...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frohmaier, Christopher M.
Other Authors: Sullivan, Mark
Published: University of Southampton 2017
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729780