Kiso Supernova Survey (KISS): Survey Strategy

The Kiso Supernova Survey (KISS) is a high-cadence optical wide-field supernova (SN) survey. The primary goal of the survey is to catch the very early light of a SN, during the shock breakout phase. Detection of SN shock breakouts combined with multi-band photometry obtained with other facilities would provide detailed physical information on the progenitor stars of SNe. The survey is performed using a 2.2x2.2 deg field-of-view instrument on the 1.05-m Kiso Schmidt telescope, the Kiso Wide Field Camera (KWFC). We take a three-minute exposure in g-band once every hour in our survey, reaching magnitude g~20-21. About 100 nights of telescope time per year have been spent on the survey since April 2012. The number of the shock breakout detections is estimated to be of order of 1 during our 3-year project. This paper summarizes the KISS project including the KWFC observing setup, the survey strategy, the data reduction system, and CBET-reported SNe discovered so far by KISS.

Mamoru Doi | Shigeyuki Sako | Yuki Moritani | Takashi Miyata | Takao Soyano | Ken'ichi Tarusawa | Naoto Kobayashi | Satoshi Miyazaki | Nozomu Tominaga | Hiroshi Akitaya | Norio Okada | Ken Tateuchi | Francesco Taddia | Michael W. Richmond | Nobuharu Ukita | Ko Arimatsu | Noriyuki Matsunaga | Yoshikazu Nakada | Yutaro Kitagawa | Tomoki Morokuma | Yoshihiko Saito | Ikuru Iwata | Nobuyuki Kawai | Yutaro Tachibana | Fumiaki Nakata | Hiroyuki Mito | Yuji Urata | Tsutomu Aoki | Daisuke Kuroda | Yuki Sarugaku | Ryosuke Itoh | Takahiro Ui | Takashi Horiuchi | Hiroyuki Maehara | Mitsuru Kokubo | Devendra Sahu | Katsutoshi Takaki | Kei Sano | N. N. Pavlyuk | Elena Pian | Nidia Morrell | Taketoshi Yoshii | E. Pian | M. Stritzinger | N. Morrell | Y. Urata | P. Mazzali | N. Kawai | M. Richmond | M. Doi | T. Morokuma | C. Contreras | E. Hsiao | F. Taddia | G. Aldering | N. Tominaga | Y. Tachibana | R. Itoh | Y. Kitagawa | S. Miyazaki | N. Okada | D. Kuroda | Y. Sarugaku | Masaomi Tanaka | K. Kawabata | H. Akitaya | H. Maehara | F. Nakata | I. Iwata | N. Kobayashi | K. Tateuchi | S. Sako | T. Aoki | T. Miyata | K. Tarusawa | D. Sahu | Masaomi Tanaka | Carlos Contreras | Maximilian D. Stritzinger | Mark M. Phillips | Emma S. Walker | H. Mito | Y. Nakada | T. Misawa | S. Kawabata | N. Matsunaga | T. Yoshii | Y. Moritani | S. Kawabata | N. Ukita | E. Walker | K. Takaki | Yukihiro Kikuchi | Kensho Mori | Emiko Matsumoto | Yuki Kikuchi | Takumi Shibata | Greg Aldering | Eric Y. Hsiao | Koji | Paolo | Mazzali | Toru Misawa | Rina Okamoto | Nikolay Pavlyuk | Akihiko Tomita | Dmitry Tsvetkov | K. Arimatsu | A. Tomita | M. Kokubo | K. Mori | T. Ui | D. Tsvetkov | T. Soyano | E. Matsumoto | Takumi Shibata | Takashi Horiuchi | M. Phillips | K. Sano | R. Okamoto | Kei Sano | Y. Saito | N. Pavlyuk | Dmitry Tsvetkov | Yutaro Kitagawa | M. Phillips

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