Supernova Cosmology Project

The Discovery Science Channel featured a program from 2000 (I think) about
this project. Dr. Saul Perlmutter headed it up. Does anyone know the current
status? 1998 article at http://www.lbl.gov/supernova/.

Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
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"W. Watson" wrote in
k.net:

The Discovery Science Channel featured a program from 2000 (I think)
about this project. Dr. Saul Perlmutter headed it up. Does anyone know
the current status? 1998 article at http://www.lbl.gov/supernova/.

The main website lists articles published last year so I would assume the
project is still very much active. See:

http://supernova.lbl.gov/


Not sure if there is any collaboration with amateurs as for the backyard
astrophysics group:

http://cba.phys.columbia.edu/

or the gravitational microlensing projects like OGLE and MOA which have a
lot of observational input from amateurs equipment with CCD gear.

Klazmon


Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

The SCP concentrates on very distant supernovae,
at redshifts greater than 0.3 and apparent magnitudes
fainter than approx 21. There are few amateurs
who can perform high-precision photometry of such
faint objects.

Michael Richmond

W. Watson wrote:
The Discovery Science Channel featured a program from 2000 (I think)
about this project. Dr. Saul Perlmutter headed it up. Does anyone know
the current status? 1998 article at http://www.lbl.gov/supernova/.

Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet



Here is more of a summary of the data
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101fate.html
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/101bb2_1.html