 Image courtesy of High-z SN Search Team |
As an undergraduate, I participated in the
search for high-redshift
Type Ia supernovae with the High-z
Supernova Search Team. These events are fairly homogeneous
and can be used as cosmological candles to measure distances in the
Universe. Using several telescopes in Hawaii, the group had a
particularly successful supernova search in 1999, during which I
identified nine new Type Ia
supernovae. |
Read about this exciting
discovery
in several press pieces:
- A Real Supernova Science a GoGo (December1999)
- "Hats off to a potential new scientific star who personally identified 9 new supernovas (bright, dying stars located billions of light years from Earth)."
- Mashpee
Student Makes Stellar Discoveries Bates College Press Release (December 14, 1999)
- "Bates College senior Alicia Soderberg of Mashpee, Mass., has identified nine new supernovae including the most distant one found to date, as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) program that provides undergraduates with hands-on research experience."
- Student Scores High in Supernova Search National Science Foundation Press Release (December 1999)
- "A team of astrophysicists supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) spotted 20 supernovae this November, partly due to a students hard work."
