Superluminous Supernovae now and in the future

超亮超新星（SLSNe）是非同寻常的事件；亮度是普通超新星的100倍。最近天文调查的进展已经开始以比以前预想的高得多的速度发现这些爆炸，LSST未来的调查可能会发现数千个这样的事件。这个学生将继续研究这些事件的持续检测和量化，观察它们的物理性质（亮度、环境），并确定它们是否形成一个连贯的、均匀的群体。在寻找SLSNe的同时，其他有趣的天体也可能存在，包括引力透镜超新星，它比SLSNe更罕见，但可能提供完美的宇宙探测器。这个学生将研究使用暗能量调查和LSST模拟的数据来评估这两种现象。

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are extraordinary events; 100 times brighter than normal supernova. Recent advances in survey astronomy have started to uncover these explosions at a much higher rate than previously envisioned and future surveys by LSST could uncover thousands of such events. This studentship will investigate the continued detection and quantification of this population of events, looking at their physical properties (luminosities, environments) and determining if they form a coherent, homogeneous population. While looking for SLSNe, other interesting objects are possible including gravitationally lensed supernova which are rarer than SLSNe but provide possibly the perfect cosmological probe. This studentship will investigate using data from Dark Energy Survey and LSST simulations to assess the two phenomena.