From: Serena Nobili (serena@physto.se)
Date: Mon Jan 26 2004 - 08:49:45 PST
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:36:05PM +0100, Serena Nobili wrote:
>> looking at the plots sent by Vitaliy of the lightcurve fitting, I have
>> convinced myself that we have to trust the date of maximum given in the
>> paper by Riess, as it is clear that the HST data alone are not enough to
>> constrain the rise part of the lightcurve. Moreover, Riess claims in the
>> paper to have also pre-max data and up to 60 days after maximum. As I
>> don't see any reason not to trust this information, we have to assume
>> their date of maximum to be the correct one.
>
>Do we have any ground-based data on this supernova that we could combine
>with the HST data?
>
>-Rob
>
>
I don't know which telescopes they used. From Riess et al:
" Rest-frame B- and V-band photometry using custom filters was obtained
for SN 1999Q from observatories around the world.... "
Serena
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