Re: S02-002 and S02-001 were done on the VLT last night

From: Ariel Goobar (ariel@physto.se)
Date: Fri Apr 12 2002 - 22:37:08 PDT


Hi everyone!
for S-001 and S-002 to be Ia's consitent with the redshifts below the
magnitude calibration we were using must be off by about 0.5 mag. Can
this be confirmed with the data from the second Subaru night?

Otherways, I am pretty happy with the candidates I picked!
Ariel
  

On Sat, 13 Apr 2002 clidman@eso.org wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> Contrary to what was written in the telescope night report, the VLT also did
> S02-002 and S02-001. We only just got the data. There are some nice surprises.
>
> S02-002 looks like a type Ia at z=1.08. The spectrum is at http://www.sc.eso.org/~clidman/.
> Have a look and tell us what you think. This is unexpectedly distant.
>
> The galaxy near S02-001 has a strong emission line at 9033 Angstroms. If it is OII, (this
> is probably the case since we do not see the 4959 line and 3737 lines if it were 5007). This
> puts the galaxy at z=1.42. We are currently reducing the spectrum and will have it available
> on the web soon.
>
> The plan for tonight will be to continue with S02-001 for two more hours.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
>
>

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