Supernova Explosion Rate Measurement
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After a short introduction on supernovae and their importance as probe of
galaxy evolution, I will talk about systematic searches for these events.
EROS experiment was basically dedicated to baryonic dark matter search but
it did spend a fraction of its telescope time to search for these bright
extragalactic objects. And it succeeded indeed! I will focus on two SN
search campaigns done within EROS, which allowed to discover about fifteen
type Ia supernovae. I will present the rate measurement from these data,
before presenting the next generation experiments which will shed the
light on the rate evolution.