SN CLO12Car
- Type
- Supernova, Ia (photometric)
- Status
- Confirmed
- Lensing
- Single image, magnified
- Lensing cluster
- MACS J1720.2+3536 (z = 0.39)
- Redshift
- 1.281
- Position
- 17:20:21.03 +35:36:40.9
- Discovered
- 2012
Type Ia supernova behind MACS J1720.2+3536 from the CLASH survey. It is about 1.0 mag brighter than unlensed SNe Ia at its redshift, consistent with the 0.83 mag predicted by the CLASH lens models (Patel et al. 2014; Nordin et al. 2014).
Papers
- Patel et al. (2014)
Three gravitationally lensed supernovae behind CLASH galaxy clusters - Nordin et al. (2014)
Lensed Type Ia supernovae as probes of cluster mass models