Carnegie Supernova Project-II: Extending the Near-infrared Hubble Diagram for Type Ia Supernovae to z similar to 0.1

Phillips, M. M.; Contreras, Carlos; Hsiao, E. Y.; Morrell, Nidia; Burns, Christopher R.; Stritzinger, Maximilian; Ashall, C.; Freedman, Wendy L.; Hoeflich, P.; Persson, S. E.; Piro, Anthony L.; Suntzeff, Nicholas B.; Uddin, Syed A.; Anais, Jorge; Baron, E.; Busta, Luis; Campillay, Abdo; Castellon, Sergio; Corco, Carlos; Diamond, T.; Gall, Christa; Gonzalez, Consuelo; Holmbo, Simon; Krisciunas, Kevin; Roth, Miguel; Seron, Jacqueline; Taddia, F.; Torres, Simon; Anderson, J. P.; Baltay, C.; Folatelli, Gaston; Galbany, L.; Goobar, A.; Hadjiyska, Ellie; Hamuy, Mario; Kasliwal, Mansi; Lidman, C.; Nugent, Peter E.; Perlmutter, S.; Rabinowitz, David; Ryder, Stuart D.; Schmidt, Brian P.; Shappee, B. J.; Walker, Emma S.
2019
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC
DOI
10.1088/1538-3873/aae8bd
The Carnegie Supernova Project-II (CSP-II) was an NSF-funded, four-year program to obtain optical and near-infrared observations of a "Cosmology" sample of similar to 100 Type. Ia supernovae located in the smooth Hubble flow (0.03 less than or similar to z less than or similar to 0.10). Light curves were also obtained of a "Physics" sample composed of 90 nearby Type. Ia supernovae at z <= 0.04 selected for near-infrared spectroscopic timeseries observations. The primary emphasis of the CSP-II is to use the combination of optical and near-infrared photometry to achieve a distance precision of better than 5%. In this paper, details of the supernova sample, the observational strategy, and the characteristics of the photometric data are provided. In a companion paper, the near-infrared spectroscopy component of the project is presented.