Filippenko

Improving the Low-Redshift Foundations: Results from the Lick Observatory Supernova Search
Alex Filippenko (UC, Berkeley)

The Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS), conducted with the 0.8-m Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), has been the world's most successful search for nearby supernovae, having discovered about 700 SNe over the past decade. I will describe the search, the derived supernova rates as a function of SN type and host-galaxy parameters, an improved low-redshift Hubble diagram consisting of about 100 new SNe Ia, and other results from LOSS and its associated photometric and spectroscopic follow-up programs.