NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2018A-0369
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PI: Armin Rest, STScI, arest@stsci.edu
Address: 3700 San Martin Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
CoI: Federica Bianco, NYU
CoI: Ryan Chornock, Ohio U.
CoI: Alejandro Clocchiatti, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
CoI: Ryan Foley, UC Santa Cruz
CoI: David James, U. of Washington
CoI: Charles Kilpatrick, UC Santa Cruz
CoI: Thomas Matheson, NOAO
CoI: Gautham Narayan, NOAO
CoI: Knut Olsen, NOAO
CoI: Sean Points, CTIO
CoI: Jose Luis Prieto, Universidad Diego Portales
CoI: R Chris Smith, CTIO
CoI: Nathan Smith, U. of Arizona
CoI: Nicholas B Suntzeff, Texas A&M U.
CoI: Doug Welch, McMaster U.
CoI: Alfredo Zenteno, CTIO
CoI: Jennifer Andrews, U. of Arizona
Title: Light Echoes of the Crab Supernova (SN 1054)
Abstract: We propose to continue our search for light echoes (LEs) from the Crab
supernova, SN~1054. In previously granted NOAO time, we have discovered LEs of
three ancient SNe in the LMC as well as from the historic SN events of Cas~A
and
Tycho[2, 3], which allowed their spectroscopic classification [6, 7, 10] and 3D
spectroscopy [8, 9]. Most recently, we discovered light echoes of the
mid-19th-century Great Eruption of $eta$~Carinae using CTIO 4m Mosaic images
[11]. In previous semesters, we have monitored parts of the search area around
the Crab supernova and other SNRs in the southern hemisphere. However, since
the search area RA range overlapped with DES, we have not been able to fully
cover the search area around the Crab supernova. We propose to continue our
search for light echoes of the Crab Supernova. We propose to finish the
observations of the southern half of its search area with DECam, which gives us
a 10-15 fold improvement in efficiency over the retired CTIO-Mosaic camera, and
the new Mosaic cameras at the KPNO 4m and WYIN. The study of scattered-light
echoes from the Crab supernova will give us the opportunity to directly compare
the original supernova and its current remnant including the pulsar, and in
favorable cases (like Eta~Carinae and Cas~A), it provides a three-dimensional
view of the event and/or a spectral time series.
Program Type: Long Term/Galactic
Scheduled Nights:
Run 1 (2018A): CT-4m/DECam -- 3n on Mar 06 - Mar 07 2018, Mar 09 2018, May 21 - May 22 2018
National Optical Astronomy Observatory, 950 North Cherry Avenue, P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona 85726, Phone: (520) 318-8000, Fax: (520) 318-8360
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