From: Tony Spadafora (ALSpadafora@lbl.gov)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 17:01:27 PST
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Andrew Fruchter <fruchter@mindspring.com>
> Date: March 16, 2004 4:53:34 PM PST
> To: "Robert A. Knop Jr." <robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu>
> Cc: Andrew Fruchter <fruchter@mindspring.com>, hstsearch@lbl.gov, Tony
> Spadafora <ALSpadafora@lbl.gov>
> Subject: Re: Supernova(?) in Adam's field
>
> Glad to see the group is starting to truly appreciate HST!
>
> If you really want to do cosmology between now and 2014 (or is that
> 2041 -- NASA isn't quite clear on the launch date for SNAP right now),
> I suggest you contact your Congresspersons immediately and have them
> support HR550, Congressman Udall's resolution calling for an
> independent investigation of the SM4 question.
>
> Andy
>
> P.S. This is coming from my home address, since the second sentence
> of this email might be interpreted as lobbying.
>
> On Mar 16, 2004, at 7:34 PM, 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
>> <sn.png>
>
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