KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey) Brad E. Tucker.

KEGS (Kepler Extra-Galactic Survey)

Brad E. Tucker

The KEGS Core Team – The KEGGERS

Brad Tucker

Dan Kasen

Armin Rest Peter Garnavich

Rob Olling Ed Shaya Richard Mushostsky

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Kepler

Transiting planets around bright stars

105 sq. degree field in Cygnus

~100K targets ( ~3k GO)

1 min + 30 min cadences

Only selected pixels downloaded

Monitored 500 galaxies

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Supernova with Kepler – The Good

30 Minute light-curve

Continuous monitoring

Pre-Explosion

4000 Data points per SN!

Photometry ~50 - 100 ppm

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Supernova with Kepler – The Bad

~4” pixels

Data downloaded 3 months late => SN already happened

Must pre-select which galaxies to monitor/download => Need to predict the future

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Supernova with Kepler – The Ugly

Systematic Nightmare!

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SN with Kepler

6 SN from 2010 - 2012

3 Ia’s (Olling+, Nature, in press)

2 II-P (Tucker+, Nature, in prep)

1 IIn/Ia-csm (Garnavich+, in prep)

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Type Ia SN with Kepler

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Type Ia Supernova Progenitors

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Detecting the Donor Star

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The blue object is the donor star, with the yellow shock wave and front

The donor star interferes with the ejecta from the explosion

After ~3 days the eject fills the hole creating by the donor star (b)

Kasen (2010)

Signs of the Donor Star

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Most of the interaction is in the ultraviolet

t < ~5 days in B band for a Red Giant shows a significant bump

Optical bands only suffer a slight modification to their light curve rise time

Kasen (2010)

Limits on Progenitors on Ia Progenitors

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Kepler Cosmology

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Core-Collapse SN

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Core-Collapse SN

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Hydrogen Recombination

Helium Recombination

Plateau Phase

Maximum Light

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Core-Collapse SN

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K2 Fields

Kepler 1

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Campaign 4

~3000 Galaxies

7 February – 24 April 2015

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Campaign 5

2800 Galaxies

26 April – 11 July 2015

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Fast and Faint

Image Credit : Mansi Kasliwal

KEGS

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Active Galactic Nuclei

Mushotzky+11

~3% of galaxies low level AGN

Sensitivity ~0.01%

Aiming to find 300 – 500 new AGN

QSO’s Too

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KEGS Plan + Goals

2 – 3 Fields per year (Galactic Cap Fields), 3-5K galaxies per field

3 – 10 SN per field, SN Shock break-out + subtle features

Fast, faint transients

AGN, QSO’s

Improving cosmological samples

Need Ground Based Follow-up to type objects

Talk to me if you’re thirsty for data and want some KEGS

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