SN 1999ac Ia in NGC 6063


Geoffrey Chaucer with an astrolabe.

OBJECT:  SN 1999ac Ia in NGC 6063 (Sc galaxy) which in Leda is
         NGC 6063 (Leda).  
DISCOVERY:  1999feb26.5 UT by Modjaz et al. 
MAXIMUM:  Bmax 1999mar13.5 (JD 2451251.0 +/- 0.5) in B (phillips2006).
                            JD 2451251.2 (jha2006)
           Both values are of the same vintage from
           comparably skilled groups, one might as well choose one as the other and I'' stick with phillips2006.
           See the US Navy Observatory Julian Date Converter.
           This day of the year 72.
SUPERNOVA of the YEAR:  M = 29.

HEADER:  Header Common header information for this supernovae.
         The common header may (or may not) be updated relative to the header information here
         (D. J. Jeffery (2007jan01)).

COMMENTS:  This is a shallow silicon (SS) SN Ia.


REFERENCES:

       CfA List of Supernovae
       where SN 1999ac is noted.

       CfA Supernova Archive
       This has 0 SN 1999ac spectra, but there is photometry in jha2006.

       conley2006 General value
       of 19.4 days for Ia rise time in B.

       garavini2005 Specifically on SN 1999ac.

       jha2006 Gives
       SN 1999ac B max date of JD 2451251.2 (on p. 549) and these guys are also light curve experts.

       paturel2003 (Leda) Leda refererence.

       phillips2006 Specifically on SN 1999ac.
       There is photometry and 4 spectra.

       SUSPECT Index.

       SUSPECT Index:  SN 1999ac Ia.
       There are 12 SN 1999ac spectra from garavini2005.   Two are missing:  one's a duplicate, but the day 24
       spectrum would be good to have.


CORRECTIONS:  Heliocentric velocity 2848 +/- 3 km/s [2007jun27] from
              NGC 6063 (Leda).
              Galactic foreground reddening 0.20/4=.05 from
              NGC 6063 (Leda).
              This is given by
              Schlegel et al. (1998).


OBSERVATIONS: From 1) SUSPECT: these are all garavini2005 spectra, except the day +24 one. 2) Eddie Baron: none. 3) David Branch /home/branch/synow/99ac: garavini2005 spectra and 3 of the 4 phillips2006 spectra. Why only 3. SPECTRUM LOG: JD times for the SN 1999ac spectra of garavini2005 and phillips2006. Bmax 1999mar13.5 (JD 2451251.0 +/- 0.5) in B (phillips2006). The garavini2005 spectra seem to be all in the rest frame. They give rest-frame wavelength in their Table 1 and the ranges correspond to the spectra from SUSPECT. phillips2006 give observer-frame since the 7600 A telluric line is unshifted in the feb28, mar11, and mar21. JD Bmax Heliocentric velocity (Leda, 2007jul01) 1251.0 2848. Heliocentric velocity Z redshift 2848.0000000000 0.0094999054 Index JD of some kind Observer phase Rest phase 1 1236.8900000000 -14.1100000000 -13.9772177532 ! garavini2005 1999feb27.39 3703.02--10306.29822 2 1237.8900000000 -13.1100000000 -12.9866282597 ! phillips2006 1999feb28.39 3 1242.9500000000 -8.0500000000 -7.9742454226 ! garavini2005 1999mar05.45 3826.903--8859.097045 4 0.0000000000****************************** ! Note garavini2005 give 1240.95, but 5 0.0000000000****************************** ! all evidence points to 1242.95. 6 1248.8900000000 -2.1100000000 -2.0901438313 ! phillips2006 1999mar11.39 7 1251.3900000000 0.3900000000 0.3863299025 ! garavini2005 1999mar13.89 3330.649--7493.630117 8 0.0000000000****************************** ! I truncated to 7341.110562. 9 0.0000000000****************************** ! The header gives this as mar14. 10 0.0000000000****************************** ! Which is right? 11 0.0000000000****************************** ! My guess is the header is a round-off. 12 1253.8400000000 2.8400000000 2.8132741615 ! garavini2005 13 1253.7200000000 2.7200000000 2.6944034223 ! garavini2005 14 1258.8800000000 7.8800000000 7.8058452087 ! phillips2006 1999mar21.38 3599.--9269. 15 1259.8800000000 8.8800000000 8.7964347022 ! garavini2005 1999mar22.38 3227.072--9253.61232 16 1262.8900000000 11.8900000000 11.7781090776 ! garavini2005 17 1267.8700000000 16.8700000000 16.7112447552 ! garavini2005 18 1275.9800000000 24.9800000000 24.7449255474 ! garavini2005 1999apr07.48 A missing spectrum 19 0.0000000000****************************** ! from SUSPECT. 20 1279.8500000000 28.8500000000 28.5785068872 ! garavini2005 21 1282.9000000000 31.9000000000 31.5998048424 ! garavini2005 22 1284.8400000000 33.8400000000 33.5215484597 ! garavini2005 23 1290.8400000000 39.8400000000 39.4650854207 ! garavini2005 24 1291.8500000000 40.8500000000 40.4655808091 ! phillips2006 1999apr23.35 25 1293.7900000000 42.7900000000 42.3873244265 ! garavini2005 &specnamelist aname='sn1999ac Ia 1999_03_' ebv=.05 ! epoch= ! This parameter needs to updated for the particular spectrum. idifmake=0 iformat=-1 ! garavini2005 already deredshift; phillips2006 not deredshifted. ismooth=0 ! Smoothing? itick=2 itickln=4 t_rise=19.4d0 ! conley2006: just an average rise time. v_helio=2848. ymin2=.2d-16 ymax2=100.d-16 ymin3=.3 ymax3=3. wlammin1= wlammax1= wlammin2= wlammax2= wlammin3= wlammax3= /
./figure/sn1999ac_1999_03_.gif Postscript plot of the spectrum.
./figure/sn1999ac_1999_03_.dif.gif Postscript plot of the spectrum with local normalization.
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