SN HFF14Tom
- Type
- Supernova, Ia
- Status
- Confirmed
- Lensing
- Single image, magnified
- Lensing cluster
- Abell 2744 (z = 0.306)
- Redshift
- 1.3457
- Position
- 00:14:17.87 -30:23:59.7
- Discovered
- 2014
Type Ia supernova behind Abell 2744 from the Frontier Fields supernova search. Its brightness implies a magnification of 2.03 +- 0.29, which tested the Frontier Fields lens models (Rodney et al. 2015); Kawamata et al. (2016) used it as a magnification constraint.
Papers
- Rodney et al. (2015)
Illuminating a dark lens : a type Ia supernova magnified by the frontier fields galaxy cluster Abell 2744 - Kawamata et al. (2016)
Precise strong lensing mass modeling of four Hubble frontier field clusters and a sample of magnified high-redshift galaxies