Supernovae study: Context of the 4-m ILMT facility

TL;DR

The paper discusses the capabilities and strategies of the upcoming 4-m ILMT facility for discovering supernovae and variable sources through deep, nightly imaging of a sky strip, highlighting its advantages over traditional telescopes.

Contribution

It presents a novel approach for supernova detection using the ILMT and compares its observational benefits with existing telescopes.

Findings

ILMT will perform deep nightly imaging of a sky strip.

The strategy enables discovery of various supernovae types.

Advantages over traditional telescopes are outlined.

Abstract

The upcoming 4-m International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) facility will perform deep imaging (in single scan $g'$ $\sim$22 mag.) of a narrow strip of sky each clear night in the Time Delayed Integration mode. A cadence of one day observation will provide unique opportunities to discover different types of supernovae (SNe) along with many other types of variable sources. We present the approach to discover SNe with the ILMT and discuss the follow-up strategy in the context of other existing observational facilities. The advantages of the ILMT observations over the traditional glass mirror telescopes are also discussed.