Keck Infrared Transient Survey Data Release 1
DOI10.5281/zenodo.8339956Zenodo8339956MaRDI QIDQ6719761FDOQ6719761
Dataset published at Zenodo repository.
Matthew Grayling, Saurabh Jha, Kirsty Taggart, David A. Coulter, Lindsey A Kwok, Alexei Filippenko, Sam M. Ward, Foley J. Ryan, Samaporn Tinyanont, Katie Auchettl, Phillip MacIas, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Ryan Chornock, Wynn V. Jacobson-Galan, Kaisey S. Mandel, Jennifer E Andrews, Qinan Wang, Kyle W. Davis, Matthew R. Siebert, Conor Larison, Cesar Rojas-Bravo, Maria. J. Bustamante-Rosell, Josh S Bloom, K. Decker French, Natalie Lebaron, Stephen Thorp, Lluís Galbany, Yssavo Camacho-Neves, Curtis McCully, S Dhawan, Michael F Skrutskie, Armin Rest, David O. Jones, Justin D. R. Pierel, Greg Aldering
Publication date: 14 September 2023
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
We present the first data release fromthe Keck Infrared Transient Survey (KITS), a NASA Key Strategic Mission Support program to obtain near-infrared (NIR) spectra of astrophysical transients of all types.Thisdata releaseconsistsof 105 NIR spectra of 50 transients.As we are entering a new era of infrared astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (Roman), KITS provides a large, publicly available sample of IR spectroscopy for a wide range of transients. These data will be essential to search JWSTimages for stellar explosions of the first stars and to plan an effectiveRomanSN Ia cosmology survey, both key science objectives for mission success. The first data release represents the first semester, which is one third of the full survey. We systematically observed three samples: a flux-limited sample that includes all transients brighter than 17~mag in a red optical band (usually ZTF ror ATLAS obands); a volume-limited sample including all transients within redshift z 0.01; and an SN Ia sample targeting objects at phases and light-curve parameters that had scant existing NIR data in the literature. Please see the accompanying paper where wedescribe our observing procedures and data reduction using an automated pipeline pypeit with minimal human interaction to ensure reproducibility. In this dataset, we provide telluric-corrected spectra of the transient in CSV format. We also provideone-dimensional extracted spectra of transients and telluric standard stars in FITS format from pypeit. Users can use theseintermediate data products to redo telluric correction if desired.
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