The AMUSING survey strategy

Make use of non-optimal weather at Paranal to obtain a large amount of time on MUSE to observe SN host galaxies.

All observing constraints are set to (almost) lowest constraint. This means: ANY seeing; THN conditions; BRIGHT Moon; and we have objects across full RA and dec range meaning that pointing restrictions can be overcome. In practice, many objects will be observed in <1.2” seeing, plus dark/grey time, CLR conditions etc.

The project plan is to be as open as possible.

Proposal science aim for overall survey

Constrain SN progenitors through observations of their host environments w.r.t. their global host properties. Refine the use of SN as probes of other processes in the Universe. Constrain galaxy evolution, SF processes, dynamics, study extragalactic stellar populations.

P95 - 095.D-0091

MUSE observations of Type Ia supernova environments: constraining progenitor properties, and refining distance calibration techniques (PI: Anderson)

P96 - 096.D-0296

The AMUSING survey II: ASAS-SN supernova rates with respect to environment properties (PI: Anderson)

P97 - 097.D-0408

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey III: constraining supernova progenitors through understanding the origin of narrow absorption features (PI: Anderson)

P98 - 098.D-0115

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey IV: Reducing the scatter in the Near Infrared SN Ia Hubble diagram (PI: Galbany)

P99 - 099.D-0022

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey V: Host galaxy dependences in the Near Infrared SN Ia Hubble diagram (PI: Galbany)

P100 - 100.D-0341

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey VI: late-time nebular spectroscopy and environments of core-collapse supernovae (PI: Kuncarayakti)

P101 - 101.D-0748

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey VII: Continuing the survey of nebular spectra and environments of core-collapse supernovae (PI: Kuncarayakti)

P102 - 102.D-0095

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey VIII: The local environments of type Ia supernovae (PI: Anderson)

P103 - 103.D-0440

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey IX: supernova and tidal disruption event rates as a function of environment age and metallicity (PI: Anderson)

P104 - 104.D-0503

The All-weather MUse Supernova Integral field Nearby Galaxies (AMUSING) survey X: star formation in low-mass galaxies as traced by extra-galactic transients (PI: Anderson)

P106 - 106.2104.001

Type Ia supernovae in low-luminosity host environments (PI: Galbany)

P111 - 111.24VQ.001

Environment constraints on supernovae Ibn: high or low mass progenitors? (PI: Kravstov)

P111 - 111.24UM.001

The local environments of stripped-envelope supernovae (PI: Pessi)

P112 - 112.25XB.001

Investigating the Host Environments of 1987A-like Type II Supernovae arising from Blue Supergiants (PI: Singh)

P113 - 113.26FT.001

An ATLAS view on the occurrence of core-collapse supernovae as a function of metallicity (PI: Pessi)

P114 - 114.26ZM.001

Constraining the fates of very massive stars: Environments of newly discovered peculiar core-collapse supernovae (PI: Galbany)

P115 - 115.2841.001

An ATLAS view on the occurrence of core-collapse supernovae as a function of metallicity (PI: Pessi)

P115 - 115.28DB.001

Studying the host environments of sub-luminous Type Ia Supernovae using MUSE observations (PI: Alburai)

P116 - 116.28SK.001

Studying the host environments of sub-luminous Type Ia Supernovae using MUSE observations (PI: Alburai)

These include proposals not directly included in AMUSING but sent by members of the collaboration for other purpeses. These data is included in AMUSING+. List/info on other MUSE projects with similar science goals (need permission from PIs before posting here):

SV data: PI Galbany

One galaxy NGC6754 observed which contains 4 SNe. Data already used in Sanchez et al. (2015). Data also shown in Anderson et al. (2015), SN environment review paper. Also there are 5 other galaxies observed in SV which had SNe. The whole sample has been analysed and the results published as a pilot study for AMUSING in Galbany et al. (2016)

DDT for CSP14acu: PI Anderson

DDT proposal allocated 2hrs to a) obtain nebular spectroscopy of a very low-L host SNII, CSP14acu, and b) search for and characterise the host galaxy (which is probably very low Z): galaxy is ~-13Mr!!!

P95 - 095.D-0172

MUSE study of nearby core-collapse supernova host environments and parent stellar populations (PI: Kuncarayakti)

P96 - 096.D-0263

A MUSE view of the host galaxies an encironments of peculiar Iax supernovae (PI: Lyman)
Band C time allocated in P96 to observe 17 SN Iax explosion sites. Main aims are to compare results of Iax explosion sites to their hosts and to the AMUSING Ia/CC samples. A few other SNe can be fit in the FOVs. For some nearby ones, the hosts are larger than FOV. Will update with details of what galaxies were actually observed during/after P96.

P114 - 114.27G5.001

ALMA + MUSE environment observations to reveal the nature of Type Ic supernova progenitors (PI: Solar)

Survey policies

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