Millennium Center for Supernova Science
What are they doing?: Refining distance indicators. Understanding SN physics. Nearby Supernova Search using robotic telescopes. Carry out a follow-up program.
CHASE: the supernova search. 6 40cm telescopes (4 working). 10% time... Sample about 1000 nearby galaxies, sampled every ~4 nights.
Oh look, they found a SN last night. 2 in 2007, 24 in 2008. Roughly 2 per month.
Buying their own telescope... 50 cm... Increase discovery rate... and or follow-up.
Follow-up... teamed up with Carnegie Supernova Project.
Yikes. CSP is killing us at LT.
104 Type Ia’s. They are doing very well. Hubble diagram.... sigma = 0.13-10.17 Using optical. Adding J reduces to 0.12
Hmmm.... Must rethink LT.
Rv low for both type Ia and type II SNe.
A type II “hypernova”? SN 2003bg... SN 2002gh. What the hell is that?
What are they doing?: Refining distance indicators. Understanding SN physics. Nearby Supernova Search using robotic telescopes. Carry out a follow-up program.
CHASE: the supernova search. 6 40cm telescopes (4 working). 10% time... Sample about 1000 nearby galaxies, sampled every ~4 nights.
Oh look, they found a SN last night. 2 in 2007, 24 in 2008. Roughly 2 per month.
Buying their own telescope... 50 cm... Increase discovery rate... and or follow-up.
Follow-up... teamed up with Carnegie Supernova Project.
Yikes. CSP is killing us at LT.
104 Type Ia’s. They are doing very well. Hubble diagram.... sigma = 0.13-10.17 Using optical. Adding J reduces to 0.12
Hmmm.... Must rethink LT.
Rv low for both type Ia and type II SNe.
A type II “hypernova”? SN 2003bg... SN 2002gh. What the hell is that?
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