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The Nearby SuperNova Factory
Y. Copin and the SNFactory consortium
The Nearby Supernova Factory (SNfactory) is an international project
(USA, France, Sweeden, Portugal) dedicated to the study of the nearby
thermonuclear super-novae. Based upon the NEAT search for the target
discovery and the dedicated integral field spectrograph SNIFS for the
follow-up, the goal is to study the spectro-photometric evolution of
~300 SNe~Ia at z < 0.08 on a continuous period of 4 years. This will
allow to probe in detail the local Hubble diagram, the SNe Ia physics,
the SNe-host galaxy correlations, etc. and will serve as an
unprecedented nearby benchmark for the high-z cosmological studies to
come.