1998/03/24 by Piero Madau, P. Madau, M. Della Valle +1 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01697.x
LaTeX, 19 pages, 3 figures, to be published in the MNRAS
arxiv created 1998/03/24 · openalex publication_date 1998/06/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ongoing searches for supernovae (SNe) at cosmological distances have recently started to provide a link between SN Ia statistics and galaxy evolution. We use recent estimates of the global history of star formation to compute the theoretical Type Ia and Type II SN rates as a function of cosmic time from the present epoch to high redshifts. We show that accurate measurements of the frequency of SN events in the range 0 < z < 1 will be valuable probes of the nature of Type Ia progenitors and the evolution of the stellar birth rate in the Universe. The Next Generation Space Telescopeshould detect of order 20 Type II SNe per 4 × 4 arcmin2 field per year in the interval 1 < z < 4.