Deepsearch Meeting Notes, 1999 October 13

Saul isn't here yet. We're waiting and picking our noses.


CFHT Supernovae Update

Now it's 2:15, and saul is here. He's updating us base on the Keck followup of the CFHT run. They have two supernovae at z=0.88 and 0.65. Debussy is one candidate, confirmed at WIYN, that Saul thinks might be real, but they weren't really able to trace it.

The z=0.88 supernova gives a supernova to followup at VLT. Isobel is going to do the organization, consulting with Saul and Greg, Saul tells us.

Peter points out that the two guys they found that were Ia's had magnitudes of 25.2 and 24.8. He says that these are fully 2 magnitudes dimmer than what Ia's at those magnitudes would be in the I-band. Peter argues based on the spectra that these guys probably are at peak. For one supernova, in the 3h field, they were looking in a rather busy part of our galaxy; we still have to look at the Finkbeiner maps. (Note that we used to work out at 5h because of the dust in the galaxy.) The B&H value for ned from one of these guys was 0.25 magnitudes of B extinction (which is more than the criterea we used to apply).

We did try to get final references. We have one hour's worth in mixed seeing.