Supernovae and Cosmology with Future European Facilities

TL;DR

This paper discusses how upcoming European facilities like Euclid and E-ELT will enhance supernova surveys, enabling better cosmological measurements through advanced observations of distant supernovae.

Contribution

It introduces the potential of Euclid and E-ELT for supernova cosmology and compares their capabilities with other future surveys.

Findings

Euclid can find and monitor thousands of distant supernovae.

E-ELT will obtain spectra of supernovae up to redshift four.

These facilities will significantly improve supernova-based cosmological studies.

Abstract

Prospects for future supernova surveys are discussed, focusing on the ESA Euclid mission and the European Extremely Large Telescope(E-ELT), both expected to be in operation around the turn of the decade. Euclid is a 1.2m space survey telescope that will operate at visible and near-infrared wavelengths, and has the potential to find and obtain multi-band lightcurves for thousands of distant supernovae. The E-ELT is a planned general-purpose ground-based 40m-class optical-IR telescope with adaptive optics built in, which will be capable of obtaining spectra of Type Ia supernovae to redshifts of at least four. The contribution to supernova cosmology with these facilities will be discussed in the context of other future supernova programs such as those proposed for DES, JWST, LSST and WFIRST.