From: Rachel G. (gibbo@panisse.lbl.gov)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 16:52:02 PST
Hi Rob,
One quick way to check candidates is to look at the
GOODS transient search pages, where they put snaps of their
candidates :
http://www.stsci.edu/science/goods/transients.html
This one is : SN 2003be "Qiqirn" :
http://www.stsci.edu/science/goods/transients/qiqirn.html
The J2000 coordinates given are (btw, these are
identical to the info in astro-ph/0402512) :
RA = 12:36:25.97
Dec = 62:06:55.6
Rachel
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
> The software is still slowly coming along, so you all can't run it yet,
> but soon.
>
> Meanwhile, I thought I'd share this one thing I found. (See attached
> screenshot). I haven't yet identified this as one of Adam's, but it is
> possible that I've got a bug with my coordinate solution. (We'll know
> once I really do find Adam's again.)
>
> This is one we would probably not have found from the ground. If we
> did, we would have interpreted it as an AGN, as it would have been right
> on core. The HST image shows it 0.2" off core, though, and clearly a SN
> near the core of a spiral galaxy.
>
> If there are lots of these, then no surprise that there are lots of
> extinguished supernovae. Given that this is in the core of a spiral,
> it's probably more likely a II than a Ia.
>
> -Rob
>
> --
> --Prof. Robert Knop
> Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
> robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
>
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