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The Dark Energy Bedrock All-sky Supernova Program: Motivation; Design; Implementation; and Preliminary Data Release

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Nora Sherman
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M. Acevedo
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Dillon Brout
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Brian Martin
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D. Scolnic
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Dingyuan Cao
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C. Lidman
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Noor Ali
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P. Armstrong
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Katie Auchettl
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R Chen
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A. Drlica-Wagner
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P. S. Ferguson
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K. Herner
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Gautham Narayan
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Erik R. Peterson
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Liana Rauf
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A. Rest
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Adam G. Riess
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M. Šako
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B. Schmidt
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Xianzhe Tang
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B. Tucker
DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ae48ffdelete
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Precise measurements of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at low redshifts (z) serve as one of the most viable keys to unlocking our understanding of cosmic expansion, isotropy, and growth of structure. The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernovae (DEBASS) program will deliver a uniformly calibrated low-z dataset of more than 400 spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia in the Southern Hemisphere. DEBASS utilizes the Dark Energy Camera to image supernovae in conjunction with the Wide-Field Spectrograph to gather comprehensive host-galaxy information. By using the same photometric instrument as both the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey, DEBASS not only benefits from a robust photometric pipeline and well-calibrated images across the Southern sky, but can replace the historic and external low-z samples that were used in the final DES supernova analysis. In this paper, along with a companion paper, we present an early data release of 77 DEBASS SNe within the DES footprint. We introduce the DEBASS program, discuss its scientific goals and the advantages it offers for supernova cosmology, and present our initial results demonstrating data quality. With this early data release, we find a robust median absolute standard deviation of Hubble diagram residuals of ∼0.10 mag and an initial measurement of the host-galaxy mass step of 0.06 ± 0.04 mag, both before performing bias corrections. This low scatter shows the promise of a low-z SN Ia program with a well-calibrated telescope and high signal-to-noise ratio across multiple bands.
Keywords:
Type Ia supernovae
cosmic expansion
Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernovae
low-redshift
host-galaxy mass step
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