What is KISS?
KISS (Kiso Supernova Survey) is a supernova survey which utilizes the 1.05-m Kiso Schmidt telescope and its wide-field camera, Kiso Wide Field Camera (KWFC), operated by the the Kiso Observatory, the Institude of Astronomy, the University of Tokyo.
KISS takes 3-minute exposure in g-band every 1 hour in order to catch the very early light of supernovae, shock breakout.
We have started the observations since April 2012.
Figure 1: A schematic view of a supernova shock breakout. From letf to right, a star before supernova explosion, a star when the shock wave is emerging from the photosphere, a star at the brightest shock breakout phase, a supernova.