From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 06:35:51 PDT
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:26:44AM -0700, Lifan Wang wrote:
>
> Has anyone questioned the identification and redshift of SN 1998ax ?
> The spectrum seems rather featureless but it is taken as a spectroscopically
> confirmed SN in Knopp's paper. This SN looks quite suspecious even in
> my standard.
Sheesh, is this never going to end? A long time ago I was assured that
all of the HST supernovae were fine. A few weeks ago Andy questioned
9878 and 98104. Now you're questioning 98109.
Has anybody looked at ANY of the HST spectra? The only one I can
remember is 98142; I've seen Eric's spectrum of that one, and it looks
very good. The others I was relying on previous judgements. But if
every week or two a new message is going to come up questioning yet
another supernovae, it makes me wonder what I've been doing all this
time.
We could always just *not* publish the paper. Or we could title it
"Omega M and Omega Lambda From the One HST Supernova That Was Left Once
We Finally Got Around a Day or Two Before Submission to Deciding Which
Ones We Would All Agree Should Be In This Paper."
-Rob
-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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