NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2011A-0458
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PI: Armin Rest, Space Telescope Science Institute, arest@stsci.edu
Address: 3700 San Martin Dr, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
CoI: Carles Badenes, Weizmann Institute of Science
CoI: Marcel Bergmann
CoI: Stephane Blondin, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille
CoI: Alejandro Clocchiatti, PUC
CoI: Kem Cook, NOAO and LLNL
CoI: Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley
CoI: Ryan Foley, Harvard/CfA
CoI: Mark E. Huber, JHU
CoI: Daniel Kasen, UC Berkeley
CoI: Thomas Matheson, NOAO
CoI: Paolo Mazzali, MPIA
CoI: Brittany McDonald, McMaster University
CoI: Knut Olsen, NOAO
CoI: Brendan Sinnott, McMaster University
CoI: R. Chris Smith, NOAO/CTIO
CoI: Nicholas Suntzeff, Texas A&M
CoI: Doug Welch, McMaster University
CoI: Michael Wood-Vasey, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Echoes of Historical Supernovae in the Milky Way Galaxy
Abstract: We propose to continue our search for the first light echoes (LEs) associated with three historical Galactic supernovae: SN 1006, Kepler's SN, and RCW 86. In previously granted NOAO time, we have obtained images of regions of significant dust concentration near several northern and these southern hemisphere Galactic SNRs. To date we have found the light echoes from two SNe in the northern hemisphere, the Cas A supernova of 1680 and the Tycho supernova of 1572 \citeRest08b. We plan to continue our search for light echoes of the other historic Galactic SNe. The study of scattered-light echoes from these Galactic supernovae provides a host of newly-recognized observational benefits which have only just begun to be exploited including (1) a direct comparison of a supernova's original outburst and its current remnant, (2) a three-dimensional view of a supernova, (3) and absolute geometric distances.
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