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Tori Spelling was falling to pieces. As the Badgley Mischka-clad bride prepared to wed her boyfriend of 2½ years, actor-writer Charlie Shanian, on July 3, she couldn't hold back the tears. "I started crying the moment my bridesmaids were walking down the aisle," she says. "And then as I started to walk out, my heel got stuck in the back of my dress! And tears were rolling down, and my nose started running. All I could think was, 'I can't wipe my nose as I walk down the aisle,' so I had to leave it there." And then there was the father of the bride, TV superproducer Aaron Spelling, who was battling his own jitters. "My dad was so cute—he was nervous," says Tori, 31. "He kissed me and, of course, he stepped on my train."
Yet despite the minor snafus, the wedding day "was just perfect," says Shanian, 35. And perfectly befitting one of Hollywood's most famously extravagant families. Hosted by Spelling, 81, and wife Candy, 58, at their 56,000-sq.-ft. Los Angeles mansion, the glamorous event—estimated cost: $1 million—was a blend of the over-the-top (guests tippled from a Champagne fountain housed in a rose-covered gazebo) and the sweetly silly (the couple's pugs, decked out in a mini bridesmaid dress and tux, served as flower girl and ring bearer). The black-tie, 350-person guest list featured a mix of Spelling's former Beverly Hills, 90210 costars (see box) and longtime friends of the Spelling family (Paul Anka, Ed McMahon, Jackie Collins, Bob Newhart, Don Rickles). "Tori, as much as she talked about having an intimate wedding, has too many people that are important to her," says maid of honor Jennifer Reiss. "This wedding ended up being everything she ever wanted. It was extraordinary."
With help from celeb wedding planner Mindy Weiss, Spelling devised a '20s-inspired theme. "I always wanted a Great Gatsby party," she says. Plus, "Charlie loves the old feel, the big band music and the old movies, so we're a perfect match."
That much was evident the night before the wedding, when Shanian performed "I Love You, Crazy," a tune written by his pals, at the couple's rehearsal dinner at L.A.'s BybLos eatery. "We have this thing that we do every single night before we go to bed," says Spelling, who met Shanian in 2002 when the two costarred onstage in Maybe Baby, It's You, a play he cowrote. "He says, 'I love you, Crazy,' and I say, 'I love you, Ugly.' So that's what the song was called...Even though I knew he was The One, that was the moment that sealed the deal."
Under clear skies the next evening, the bridal party strolled down the aisle to "Through the Eyes of Love," the theme from the '78 weeper Ice Castles. The dual-faith ceremony—Spelling is Jewish, Shanian is Christian—incorporated traditions from both religions and vows the couple wrote themselves. "Charlie said, 'You're my angel, you're my light, you're giving me a love I would die to defend,'" recalls Tori. "I said he was my protector, that he taught me how to love and give love and to believe in things I never thought possible." "The moment when Tori said Charlie is her protector sums it all up," says bridesmaid Jennifer Raines. "Tori is much more calm with him. She's a different person with Charlie."
The newlyweds walked back down the aisle to "I Got You Babe," and "everyone started cheering and throwing rose petals," says Raines. "You could feel how happy they were." Adds Spelling: "I hate smiling showing my teeth, but I had this huge smile! I was beaming the entire night."
Following a cocktail reception by the pool, the party moved to an outdoor tent, where chef Wolfgang Puck catered a dinner featuring beet and goat cheese napoleons and herb-crusted lamb. After stumbling through their first dance—"We had four really cool moves we'd learned, but finally Charlie just said, 'Let's go to the dip!'" recalls Tori—the couple visited with guests, including surprise crooner Michael Feinstein. Among the evening's emotional highlights: a father-daughter dance to "Daddy's Little Girl."
As the last guests departed at 2:30 a.m., they were treated to warm chocolate-chip cookies and shot glasses of milk. The next morning Shanian's family threw a postwedding barbecue at the Hotel Bel-Air, where Spelling couldn't stop staring at her husband's left hand. "It's so surreal to see a ring on his left finger," she says. "Every time I see that, I'm like, 'I'm married.' It hasn't quite sunk in yet. I'm married! I'm a grown-up now."
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Angela Shapiro saw it coming. The former ABC Family Channel president had watched onetime Bachelor Bob Guiney fall for All My Children's Rebecca Budig as the pair taped segments last November for Bachelor XYZ, her network's recap of the Bachelor series. "It wouldn't surprise me," Shapiro told PEOPLE in April, "if they were married in the next six months."
It only took three. After a six-week engagement, Guiney, 33, and Budig, 31, wed July 3 in an intimate lakeside gathering near his family's cottage in Long Lake, Mich. Dressed in a two-piece, blue-accented strapless gown designed by a pal—"casual," says Budig's mom, Mary, "but very pretty"—Budig carried lilies as she walked with her parents to a canopy near the lake, where she and Guiney tearfully exchanged vows. Afterward, their 50 guests dined on barbeque chicken and ribs and donned swimsuits to ride the Jet Skis and pontoon boat. "They've both been married before and had big weddings," says Mary of the pair, who are honeymooning near Cancun. "They wanted this to be their own little, unique wedding, and it was."
The sudden nuptials surprised many, including a boater who had fastened a sign reading Bachelor Bob to his craft for that day's local boat parade. "They had to turn the sign over [and write] Just Married," says Mary. "I guess they're going to have to figure out another name for him!"
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Mira Sorvino's first wedding to actor Christopher Backus—a private civil ceremony at the Santa Barbara Courthouse June 11—was lovely. Still, it wasn't an all-night bash on the island of Capri. Which is why on June 29, Sorvino, in Italy to receive an acting award, and her father, Paul Sorvino, 65, called Ranieri Colonnese, the manager of Capri's exclusive La Residenza hotel, to help organize Wedding No. 2.
Three days later cases of the local Fiano Feudi di San Gregorio white wine had been chilled and, on the grounds of the rented Villa Parente, 11 tables set with lace tablecloths and antique silver cutlery. At 5:30 p.m., Sorvino, 36, and Backus, 23, led 100 guests—mostly family and friends—on a stroll up a hill on the estate to a small neoclassical temple where the couple once again exchanged "I dos." "Mira looked like a young girl in seventh heaven," says one witness. Backus, adds another, "looked like his heart was singing."
It was not a solo performance. While guests feasted on pasta in lobster sauce and a three-tier chocolate sponge cake (topped with Mira and Chris lookalike figures), Papa Sorvino sang a Neapolitan ballad. And bride and groom attempted the fast-paced tarantella dance. Says Colonnese: "They danced really well, considering they don't know the moves." They've got a lifetime to learn.
Dennis Quaid & Kimberly Buffington
A month ago, the love Dennis Quaid felt for Austin real estate agent Kimberly Buffington was just a twinkle in his eye. Make that a truckload of twinkles—reflected in the three-carat trilliant-cut canary diamond he picked up while filming The Flight of the Phoenix in Africa early this year. In June Quaid, 50, and Buffington, 32, met up with her longtime friends jewelry designers Anthony Camargo and David Nakard Armstrong and made plans to turn the rock into an engagement ring. "It is very unique and special," says Camargo, "so we said, 'Let's glorify it'"
And so they did—creating Buffington's engagement ring as well as the platinum-and-diamond bands that she and Quaid exchanged in a July 4 ceremony that was equally, if more quietly, glorious. Under the midday sun, Buffington, Quaid, Quaid's son with ex-wife Meg Ryan, Jack, 12, nine guests and the couple's five dogs hiked to the top of a hill on Quaid's 500-acre Montana ranch. There Buffington, who met Quaid in March of 2003 when his band, the Sharks, played in Austin, faced her groom in a white lace dress, holding flowers he had picked. During the ceremony "in God's cathedral," says Quaid's friend and bandmate Jamie James, best man Jack spoke, and both Quaid and Buffington recited their own vows. Everyone cried, says James, "including the dogs."
Afterward the group drove back to Quaid's house for dinner, toasts and fireworks. "I was so happy for Dennis. Kimberly is so sweet," says James. "It was beyond amazing and perfect. It was just pure love."
Michelle Branch & Teddy Landau
Maybe it was something in the amps. Or maybe it was just that after laying claim to a platinum-selling CD, a Grammy, an MTV Video Music award and a gig touring with pal Sheryl Crow by age 19, there wasn't much else exciting left to do. In any case, shortly before turning 21 on July 2, Michelle Branch—who a year ago told PEOPLE she didn't have any interest in dating because "I don't have time"—joined such stars as Britney Spears, LeAnn Rimes and Brandy and married young. The lucky guy? Her bass player, Teddy Landau, 39, who has toured with her for more than a year. The couple are keeping wedding details secret "for privacy," says a source close to Branch, who adds simply, "They seem very happy together."
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arXiv:0809.1648v1 [astro-ph] 10 Sep 2008
Accepted to ApJ: September 8, 2008
Preprint typeset using LATEX style emulateapj v. 10/09/06
K. Barbary2,3, K. S. Dawson3, K. Tokita4, G. Aldering3, R. Amanullah5, N. V. Connolly6, M. Doi4, L. Faccioli7,
V. Fadeyev8, A. S. Fruchter9, G. Goldhaber2,3, A. Goobar5, A. Gude2, X. Huang2, Y. Ihara4, K. Konishi10,
M. Kowalski11, C. Lidman12, J. Meyers2,3, T. Morokuma4,13, P. Nugent3, S. Perlmutter2,3, D. Rubin2,3,
D. Schlegel3, A. L. Spadafora3, N. Suzuki3, H. K. Swift2,3, N. Takanashi4, R. C. Thomas3,14, N. Yasuda10(The
Supernova Cosmology Project)
Accepted to ApJ: September 8, 2008
We present observations of SCP 06F6, an unusual optical transient discovered during the Hubble
Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. The transient brightened over a period of ∼100 days,
reached a peak magnitude of ∼21.0 in both i775and z850, and then declined over a similar timescale.
There is no host galaxy or progenitor star detected at the location of the transient to a 3σ upper
limit of i775 ≥ 26.4 and z850 ≥ 26.1, giving a corresponding lower limit on the flux increase of a
factor of ∼120. Multiple spectra show five broad absorption bands between 4100˚ A and 6500˚ A and
a mostly featureless continuum longward of 6500˚ A. The shape of the lightcurve is inconsistent with
microlensing. The transient's spectrum, in addition to being inconsistent with all known supernova
types, is not matched to any spectrum in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database. We suggest
that the transient may be one of a new class.
Subject headings: stars: variables: other — stars: individual (SCP 06F6) — supernovae: general
Supernova (SN) surveys are designed to detect the
brightening of supernovae over timescales of days to
weeks. They often cover large areas at high sensitiv-
ity. As a result, they are able to discover unusual
and rare transients with similar timescales.
ample, in 2006 the Lick Observatory Supernova Search
For ex-
1Based in part on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hub-
ble Space Telescope, obtained from the data archive at the Space
Telescope Institute. STScI is operated by the association of Uni-
versities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. under the NASA contract
NAS 5-26555. The observations are associated with program GO-
10496. Based in part on observations obtained at the European
Southern Observatory under ESO program 077.A-0110. Based in
part on observations collected at Subaru Telescope, which is oper-
ated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Some
of the data presented herein were obtained at the W.M. Keck Ob-
servatory, which is operated as a scientific partnership among the
California Institute of Technology, the University of California and
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
2Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley,
Berkeley, 94720-7300 CA, USA (email: email@example.com).
3E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron
Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
4Institute of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, University
of Tokyo, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0015, Japan.
5Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Albanova Uni-
versity Center, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
6Department of Physics, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323,
7Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
8Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of Cali-
fornia, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
9Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Bal-
timore, MD 21218, USA.
10Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-
5, Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8582, Japan.
11Humboldt Universit¨ at Institut f¨ ur Physik, Newtonstrasse 15,
Berlin 12489, Germany.
12European Southern Observatory, Alonso de Cordova 3107, Vi-
tacura, Casilla 19001, Santiago 19, Chile.
13National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa,
Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan.
14Luis W. Alvarez Fellow.
(LOSS) discovered an optical transient in the galaxy
M85 (Kulkarni et al. 2007; Rau et al. 2007; Ofek et al.
2008) with a lightcurve plateau of ∼80 days. It is sug-
gested that the origin of this transient is a stellar merger
and that an entire class of similar transients, luminous
red novae, exists. Other recent discoveries of rare ob-
jects include a Type Ia SN with a super-Chandrasekhar
mass progenitor (Howell et al. 2006) from the Supernova
Legacy Survey (SNLS) and SN 2005ap, the most lumi-
nous SN ever observed (Quimby et al. 2007) from the
Texas Supernova Search (TSS).
Here we report the observations of the optical transient
SCP 06F6 discovered during the course of the 2005-2006
Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Cluster SN Survey (PI:
Perlmutter; Dawson et al. 2008, in preparation). The
discovery was originally reported in a June 2006 IAU
circular (Dawson et al. 2006). Its lightcurve rise time of
∼100 days is inconsistent with all known SN types, and
its spectroscopic attributes are not readily matched to
any known variable. We present photometry in §2 and
spectroscopy in §3. In §4, we discuss constraints and
The optical transient was discovered on 21 February
2006 (UT dates are used throughout this paper) in im-
ages taken in the course of the HST Cluster SN Survey in
a field centered on galaxy cluster CL 1432.5+3332.8(red-
shift z = 1.112; Elston et al. 2006). As part of the survey
this field was imaged repeatedly over nine epochs with
the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Wide Field
Camera with a cadence of roughly three weeks. Each
epoch consisted of four exposures in the F850LP fil-
ter (hereafter denoted z850; similar to SDSS z′) totaling
∼1400 s and one exposure of ∼400 s in the F775W filter
(hereafter denoted i775; similar to SDSS i′). Table 1 gives
a summary of photometric observations. Cosmic ray re-
jection was performed on the z850images and each epoch
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2006 May 21
Fig. 1.— Deep stack of the first three epochs in z850 total-
ing 4400 s where the transient is undetected (top left and zoomed
in, bottom left), and the highest-flux epoch eight z850 exposure of
1400 s (top right and zoomed in, bottom right). All images have
the same greyscale. The hash marks indicate the transient position
and have the same physical scale in all images.
was searched for SNe using a modified version of the im-
age subtraction code developed by the Supernova Cos-
mology Project (Perlmutter et al. 1999) employing ear-
lier epochs as a reference. The transient was discovered
in the fourth epoch and is located at α = 14h32m27s.395,
δ = +33◦32′24′′.83 (J2000.0), corresponding to galactic
coordinates l = 55.528943◦, b = 67.345346◦and eclip-
tic coordinates λ = 13h24m9s.067, β = 45◦21′46′′.06.
This position has a statistical uncertainty of 0′′.01 rela-
tive to the HST Guide Star Catalogue 2.3.2, which has
an overall systematic uncertainty of 0′′.3. The angular
separation from the cluster center is 35′′, corresponding
to a projected physical separation at the cluster redshift
of 290 kpc. There is no prior detection of a source at
the transient's location in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey
(Condon et al. 1998) at 1.4 GHz to the survey 5σ detec-
tion limit of 2.5 mJy beam−1. There is no X-ray detec-
tion at this location in a 5 ks exposure in the Chandra
Telescope XBootes survey (Kenter et al. 2005) to the de-
tection limit of 7.8 × 10−15erg cm−2s−1in the full 0.5-
7 keV band.
The transient is consistent with a point source in each
of the six ACS detection epochs to the extent we can
determine. We performed aperture photometry on driz-
zled ACS images (Fruchter & Hook 2002) using 3.0 pixel
(0.′′15) radius apertures for i775and 5.0 pixel (0.′′25) ra-
dius apertures for z850. Aperture corrections were taken
from Table 3 of Sirianni et al. (2005). The systematic
error due to the known color dependence of z850 aper-
ture correction (see Sirianni et al. 2005) is estimated to
Fig. 2.— Flux lightcurve for z850 (top panel) and i775 (mid-
dle panel) scaled to maximum flux. The last three epochs (start-
ing at +42 days) are Subaru FOCAS observations. bottom panel:
i775−z850color for epochs with significant detection in both bands.
Though the color only varies ∼0.2 magnitudes between the five
best measured epochs, there is evidence for evolution. The spec-
tral epochs are marked along the abscissa with an "S."
be less than 0.015 mag.
After the transient had left the visibility window of
HST it remained visible from Mauna Kea for several
months. Three additional photometry points were ob-
tained with the Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph
(FOCAS; Kashikawa et al. 2002) on the Subaru telescope
on 2006 June 28, 2006 August 23, and the next year
on 2007 May 18. The June observations suffered from
poor weather conditions (seeing ≥ 2′′). All observations
were cosmic ray rejected using 120 s exposures. We per-
formed aperture photometry using a 1.′′04 radius aper-
ture and estimated photometric errors as described by
Morokuma et al. (2008). In order to express magnitudes
in the ACS filter system, we determined Subaru image
zeropoints by cross-correlating the photometry of nine
surrounding stars in the ACS and Subaru images. The
Subaru FOCAS i′and z′filters are similar enough to
ACS i775and z850that there is no significant trend with
stellar color.
A deep stack of the first three epochs in z850 total-
ing 4400 s (Fig. 1) and first two epochs in i775totaling
550 s provide limits on the magnitude of a possible pro-
genitor star (if galactic) or host galaxy (if extragalactic).
No progenitor star is detected in a 3.0 pixel radius aper-
ture centered at the position of the transient (known to
< 0.2 pixels) to a 3σ upper limit of i775 > 26.4 and
z850> 26.1 (Vega magnitudes are used throughout this
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Discovery of an Unusual Optical Transient3
Photometric observations
Note. — Flux measurements scaled relative to highest flux epoch; effective zeropoints are 21.077 for i775 and 21.040 for z850.
Date MJD
Scaled Flux
0.0018 ± 0.0049
0.0002 ± 0.0025
0.1183 ± 0.0032
0.4229 ± 0.0055
0.6216 ± 0.0065
0.8343 ± 0.0068
1.0000 ± 0.0099
0.8534 ± 0.0056
0.6290 ± 0.1441
0.0586 ± 0.0234
−0.0324 ± 0.0201
> 26.515
> 27.509
23.395 ± 0.025
22.012 ± 0.012
21.593 ± 0.010
21.274 ± 0.008
21.077 ± 0.009
21.249 ± 0.006
21.581 ± 0.211
24.158 ± 0.368
Scaled Flux
−0.0019 ± 0.0053
0.0053 ± 0.0049
0.0087 ± 0.0050
0.1367 ± 0.0059
0.3805 ± 0.0067
0.6055 ± 0.0074
0.8276 ± 0.0080
1.0000 ± 0.0082
0.9176 ± 0.0081
0.7384 ± 0.1520
0.0654 ± 0.0875
> 27.222
26.733 ± 0.857
26.185 ± 0.524
23.201 ± 0.040
22.089 ± 0.016
21.585 ± 0.011
21.246 ± 0.009
21.040 ± 0.008
21.134 ± 0.008
21.370 ± 0.189
> 23.080
paper). There is no sign of a host galaxy in the 1 arcsec2
surrounding the transient to a surface brightness 3σ limit
of 25.0 mag arcsec−2and 25.1 mag arcsec−2in z850and
i775, respectively. However, there is a 6σ detection in
a 3.0 pixel radius aperture of a ∼25.8 mag object 1.′′5
southwest of the transient position in z850(Fig. 1, lower
left). If the transient is extragalactic, this might repre-
sent a faint host galaxy.
The transient increased in brightness in each of epochs
four through eight before finally declining in the ninth
epoch, resulting in a rise time of approximately 100 days
(Fig.2).A fit to the brightest five ACS z850 pho-
tometry points gives a date of max of 2006 May 17.3
(MJD 53872.3). The declining part of the lightcurve,
although sparsely measured, is consistent with symme-
try about the maximum. The final photometry point
approximately one year after maximum light shows no
detection. The i775− z850 color is approximately con-
stant over the 50 days preceding maximum light, but
does show significant signs of evolution at early times
and after maximum light.
Spectroscopy was acquired on three dates (Fig. 3):
2006 April 22 (−25 days) using Subaru FOCAS, 2006
May 18 (+1 day) using VLT FORS2 (Appenzeller et al.
1998), and 2006 May 28 (+11 days) with Keck LRIS
(Oke et al. 1995).15The Subaru spectrum covers wave-
lengths longward of 5900˚ A, while the VLT and Keck
spectra cover bluer wavelengths. The VLT spectrum (ob-
served at airmass > 2) is corrected for differential slit loss
by applying a linear correction with a slope of 0.25 per
1000˚ A, derived from a comparison to the Keck spec-
trum, which covers the entire wavelength range of the
VLT spectrum. The Keck observation was made at the
parallactic angle, while Subaru FOCAS is equipped with
an atmospheric dispersion corrector, making the Keck
and Subaru observations more reliable measures of rela-
tive flux.
The spectra show a red continuum and several broad
absorption features:a possible absorption feature at
4320˚ A (FWHM ∼ 180˚ A), three strong features at 4870
(FWHM ∼ 200), 5360 (FWHM ∼ 230), and 5890˚ A
(FWHM ∼ 280˚ A), and a weaker absorption feature at
Spectroscopicdata isavailableelectronicallyfrom
Fig. 3.— Spectra averaged in 10˚ A bins. Vertical dotted lines
indicate the approximate absorption band centroids. Spectra are
normalized to match in the red continuum. Inset figures show re-
gions where spectra differ. Top Inset: Overplot of all three spectra
(no offset) in the range 5900 - 6700˚ A, demonstrating apparent evo-
lution of the flux at ∼6150˚ A relative to the red continuum. Bottom
Inset: Overplot of VLT and Keck spectra (no offset) demonstrat-
ing apparent evolution at 4670˚ A and of the absorption feature at
6330˚ A (FWHM ∼ 270˚ A). Errors are estimated to be
A comparison of the three spectra shows evidence for
spectral evolution. The flux at ∼6150˚ A consistently de-
creases relative to the red continuum over time (Fig. 3,
upper inset). Over the 10 day period from the VLT to
the Keck spectrum, the absorption feature at 5890˚ A ap-
pears to move toward shorter wavelengths, while a small
absorption feature at 4670˚ A in the VLT spectrum seems
to disappear in the Keck spectrum (Fig. 3, lower inset).
We compared the spectra to all supernova types using
the χ2fitting program described in Howell et al. (2005)
as well as the program SNID (Blondin & Tonry 2007).
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No match was found with either program.
Although the cause of the broad absorption features
is unclear, we note that dλ/λ for most of the features
is consistent with ∼0.042 (with the possible exception of
the feature at 6330˚ A). If the width of the absorption
features is due to a velocity distribution, the FHWM of
this distribution would be ∼12,600 km s−1.
One possibility is that the transient is galactic (z = 0).
For a galactic source, the slope of the red continuum gives
a lower limit blackbody temperature of 6500 K. The ab-
sorption features at 4320 and 4870˚ A are consistent with
Hγ (4341˚ A) and Hβ (4861˚ A) respectively, including
uncertainty in the shape of the underlying continuum.
However, there is no significant Hα (6563˚ A) emission
or absorption, which would be expected for the pres-
ence of strong Hγ and Hβ features. (Although there is
slight evidence for emission at 6563˚ A in the Keck spec-
trum, this is not seen in the VLT or Subaru spectra.)
The absorption feature at 5890˚ A is consistent with Na i
λλ5890, 5896. Although the combination of Hγ, Hβ,
and Na i consistently fits three of the observed features,
the strong feature at 5360˚ A and the weaker feature at
6330˚ A are left unexplained. No other narrowband emis-
sion or absorption lines are detected. The spacing of the
five absorption features is inconsistent with periodicity
in energy, as might be expected for cyclotron harmonics.
Oddly, the features are nearly (but not exactly) periodic
in wavelength.
It is also possible that the transient is extragalactic.
The absence of Lyman α absorption features shortward
of 4500˚ A places a hard upper limit of z ≤ 2.7 on its red-
shift. Among redshifts 0 < z < 2.7, the cluster redshift of
z = 1.112 is of specific interest as the transient is located
a small projected distance from the center of the cluster.
At this redshift, the absorption feature at 5890˚ A is con-
sistent with Mg ii λλ2796, 2803. However, the remain-
ing features are not identified at this redshift. Given the
observed spectral energy distribution, a peak apparent
magnitude of i775= 21.077 implies a total peak observed
flux of ∼ 2.5 × 10−14erg s−1cm−2. At z = 1.112, this
implies a peak absolute bolometric magnitude of approx-
imately −22.1. This is comparable to the peak absolute
magnitudes of SN 2005ap (−22.7; Quimby et al. 2007)
and SN 2006gy (−22; Smith et al. 2007), the two most
luminous SNe observed to date. Finally, we note that the
shape of the continuum is inconsistent with Fλ∝ λ−5/3
synchrotron radiation.
We have presented photometric and spectroscopic data
of an unusual optical transient discovered during the
HST Cluster SN Survey.
lows: a rise time of ∼100 days with a roughly symmetric
lightcurve; small but statistically significant color vari-
ations across the lightcurve; no detected host galaxy or
progenitor; broad spectral features in the blue, with a
red continuum, and some evidence for spectral evolu-
tion. Below, we first discuss constraints on the distance
to the source. Next we consider the possibility that the
transient is the result of microlensing, finding this to be
unlikely. Lastly, we search for similar objects in the Sloan
Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectral database, finding no
convincing matches.
Its key features are as fol-
RA (mas)
-100-80 -60 -40-200 20
Day since 2006 May 17.3
respectively. 5 mas = 0.1 pixels.
DEC (mas)
Fig. 4.— Position of transient in each of the six ACS de-
tection epochs with respect to the overall best fit position, α =
14h32m27s.395, δ = +33◦32′24′′.83 (J2000.0). The top and bottom
panels are the position in Right Ascension (α) and Declination (δ),
Any detection of proper motion or parallax would be
strong evidence of a galactic source. We tested for this
by fitting the position of the transient in each of the
six ACS detection epochs using a 2-d Gaussian (Fig. 4).
In all epochs the position uncertainty is dominated by
image coalignment errors caused by residual distortion,
rather than statistical error in the fit. Note that this
uncertainty in relative position between epochs is dis-
tinct from the uncertainty in the absolute position of the
transient discussed in §2. For these images and this po-
sition, we estimate this error to be 0.1 pixel (0.′′005) in
each coordinate. The most discrepant positions differ by
approximately 0.25 pixels (0.′′0125). As a whole, the po-
sitions are consistent with no proper motion or parallax
and give little indication of either. The upper limit on
proper motion is 62 mas yr−1. The upper limit on paral-
lax is ∼25 mas, which gives a lower limit on distance of
∼40 pc. This limit excludes virtually any possible solar
system object as the source of the brightening.
We can derive a more significant constraint on dis-
tance from reference image magnitude limits, assuming
that the transient is an outburst and a progenitor star
exists.The dimmest stars (aside from neutron stars)
known to undergo outbursts are white dwarfs (WDs).
WDs range in absolute magnitude from approximately
10 mag (Teff ∼ 25000 K) to approximately 16 mag
(Teff ∼ 3000 K) and dimmer.
genitor is a WD with absolute magnitude i775 = 16,
the reference image 3σ upper limit of i775> 26.4 gives
a distance 3σ lower limit of ∼1.2 kpc. If the progen-
itor is a source dimmer than i775 = 16 (e.g., a cooler
WD or a neutron star), the constraints on distance are
weaker. Because the source is at high galactic latitude
(b = 67.3◦), a limit of 1.2 kpc places the WD outside
the thin disk of the galaxy, as the thin disk has a WD
scale height of approximately 300 pc (Boyle 1989). How-
ever, there is a significant population of relatively cool
WDs residing in the thick disk and stellar halo. Galaxy
models predict between tens (Castellani et al. 2002) and
hundreds (Robin et al. 2003) of WDs far dimmer than
our reference image detection limit in a single ACS field
at this galactic latitude. Despite the large range (which
reflects the uncertainty in the density of ancient WDs in
If we assume the pro-
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the stellar halo) it is clear that the density is high enough
to make a galactic WD a possible progenitor.
Although the symmetry of the lightcurve (Fig. 2) sug-
gests that the transient is a microlensing event, this in-
terpretation is unlikely. The lightcurve is dramatically
broader than the theoretical lightcurve for microlensing
of a point source by a single lens (Paczynski 1986). The
typical lightcurve FWHM of high-magnification (peak
magnification ≥ 300) microlensing events is on the order
of a few hours (e.g., Abe et al. 2004; Dong et al. 2006)
whereas the transient's lightcurve FWHM is ∼100 days
with a peak magnification 3σ lower limit of ∼120. Also,
the color evolves a small but significant amount over the
lightcurve, particularly between epochs eight and nine.
Some of these difficulties can be overcome if we assume
the source is resolved; this can both change the shape
of the lightcurve and allow for color variation as differ-
ent source regions are differentially magnified. However,
this typically results in a lower peak magnification. Fi-
nally, microlensing would still not explain the mysterious
In an effort to identify objects with similar spectra,
we cross-correlated the broad features of the spectrum
with the SDSS spectral database.
trum was warped with a polynomial function to best fit
the Keck spectrum, based on a least squares fit. The
value of the root mean square of the difference between
the spectra was used to determine the correlation. An
allowance for relative redshift was made, with the re-
quirement that the spectra overlapped in the range of
the strongest features (3500 to 6200˚ A). No convincing
matches were found. Changing the warping function be-
tween linear and quadratic and varying the wavelength
range used in the fit altered which SDSS objects had the
highest correlation, but did not result in a more convinc-
ing match. The SDSS objects with the highest corre-
lation were broad absorption line quasars (BAL QSOs)
at various redshifts and carbon (DQ) WDs. Although
BAL QSOs do have similarly broad features, they don't
exhibit the spacing or rounded profiles of those of the
transient. Also, BAL QSOs typically include emission
features. The DQ WDs most similar to the transient are
known as DQp WDs. Like the transient, DQp WDs have
Each SDSS spec-
broad, rounded absorption features between 4000 and
6000˚ A with a red continuum (see, e.g., Hall & Maxwell
2008). However, the positions and spacing of the ab-
sorption features shortward of 5000˚ A differ greatly from
those of the transient spectrum. In addition, DQp WDs
show increased emission toward the UV, which is not
seen in the transient.
The absence of similar spectra in the SDSS database
implies that such variables are either very rare or typi-
cally fainter than the SDSS detection threshold, or both.
If they are typically faint, this would seem to argue for an
extragalactic origin, though a galactic origin is of course
still possible. If this transient does indeed represent a
new class of either galactic or extragalactic transients,
such objects will be of great interest for future extensive
surveys of the time-variable sky.
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discussion of spectroscopy. We thank Ken'ichi Nomoto
and Masaomi Tanaka for comparisons to supernovae. We
thank Robert DaSilva for an initial SDSS spectroscopy
comparison. Financial support for this work was pro-
vided by NASA through program GO-10496 from the
Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by
AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555. This
work was also supported in part by the Director, Office
of Science, Office of High Energy and Nuclear Physics,
of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No.
AC02-05CH11231, as well as a JSPS core-to-core pro-
gram "International Research Network for Dark Energy"
and by a JSPS research grant (20040003). The authors
wish to recognize and acknowledge the very significant
cultural role and reverence that the summit of Mauna
Kea has always had within the indigenous Hawaiian com-
munity. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity
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Chandigarh, October 20 While five of the sitting members from Punjab Varinder Singh Bajwa (Shiromani Akali Dal), Manohar Singh Gill (Congress), Naresh Gujral (Shiromani Akali Dal), Dharam Pal Sabharwal (Congress) and Ashwani Kumar (Congress) complete their terms in the first half of April, the remaining two Rajmohinder Singh Majithia (Shiromani Akali Dal) and Ambika Soni (Congress) will have membership till the first week of July. Interestingly, both Manohar Singh Gill and Ambika Soni are members of the Union Council of Ministers headed by Manmohan Singh. Going by the present strength of different political parties in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, of all seven seats to fall vacant next year, four will go to the ruling SAD-BJP alliance and the remaining three to the Congress. It clearly indicates that at least one of the sitting Congress Rajya Sabha members has to sit out next time. Both Manohar Singh Gill and Ambika Soni look apparent certainties to retain their seats. Since New Delhi is playing host to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Manohar Singh Gill is actively involved in the event. Even Ambika Soni, because of her seniority in the party and the decision of the party not to field her during the last general election, makes her a certainty for a berth from Punjab in the Rajya Sabha. The choice for the third Congress seat will be limited not only to the sitting members Dharam Pal Sabharwal and Ashwani Kumar but also other possible candidates, including Jagmeet Singh Brar, who may be inclined to get into the Rajya Sabha after several aborted attempts to get into the Lok Sabha. The SAD-BJP alliance will also have a problem of plenty in renominating its candidates. Some senior SAD leaders like Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa and Balwinder Singh Bhunder besides Deputy Chairman of the State Planning Board J.S. Bajaj, Advocate-General Hardev Singh Mattewal, Media Adviser Harcharan Bains and Secretary of the Dal Daljeet Singh Cheema will be new claimants in addition to the sitting Rajya Sabha members. Besides them, former Chairman of the National Minorities Commission and sitting Rajya Sabha member from Haryana Tarlochan Singh will also be a claimant to the SAD-BJP ticket. Then there will be pressures from the BJP as well.Punjab BJP chief Rajinder Singh Bhandari is also said to be in the run. Another strong BJP contender will be Avinash Rai Khanna. The ball will be in the court of the Badals to decide future Rajya Sabha members from Punjab. In all probability the elections may be held for all seven seats in March next year during the Budget session of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha. |
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Amritsar, October 20 Subsequently, the arrangement was challenged by SAD (Panch Pardhani) special secretary Balbir Singh Sirsa in July. He had alleged that the contract was awarded to oblige certain political bigwigs and that the SGPC chief had given away the contract to appease certain politicians. Meanwhile, SGPC chief Avtar Singh has said that the contract was given to modernise the audit procedure of the SGPC. He said though he had not gone through the commission verdict order as yet, the SGPC would honour it. The SGPC would also seek legal opinion in this respect as soon as possible, he added. In its order, the commission has held that the SGPC president was not vested with powers to employ any person whose monthly salary crossed the mark of Rs 7,000 and hence, the arrangement stood revoked. The SGPC authorities, it was learnt, had allegedly awarded the contract to the firm in a hasty manner, as it had not deemed it fit to call for any tenders through any advertisement. The contract was awarded only on basis of a resolution passed by the SGPC executive. |
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Amritsar, October 20 Bhai Ranjit Singh, who was asked to vacate the house given to him by Guru Ramdas Charitable Trust, has shot back with a bundle of allegations against the SGPC authorities and particularly against its chief Avtar Singh. He has also alleged that the SGPC had leased out over 20,000 acres of agricultural land to his favourite persons at a nominal fee of about Rs 200 per acre. He also accused the SGPC of turning a blind eye to a scam involving many top Akali leaders whose wards had done MBBS and other courses from SGPC-run institutions without submitting requisite fee. If this was not enough, most of the nearly 250 SGPC employees had become a burden on the Sikh Panth as they were being used as cooks and drivers by different Akali leaders. A piece of 27 acres of gurudwara land in Shahabad Markanda in Haryana was leased out to a trust for just Rs 10,000. Similarly, another 20 acres and an amount of Rs 4 lakh was given to another trust under a resolution passed by the SGPC on September 9. I am ready to hold an open discussion on the issue. Is the SGPC chief ready for it? questioned Bhai Ranjit Singh. He demanded the SGPC should bring out a white paper on the issue and apprise the sangat about the deals. SGPC chief Avtar Singh was not available for comment on the issue. On the other hand, DCC (Rural) president Lally Majithia sought to throw a spanner in the wheels of the SGPC authorities by filing an application under the RTI Act to seek detailed information on all deals, including the SGPC leased properties. He has also sought details specifying as to how the rights granted for live telecast of Gurbani were transferred overnight from one TV channel to the other. |
Chief Commissioners post for UT
Chandigarh, October 20 Highly placed sources in the Chief Ministers office said the Chief Minister was concerned about the Centre handing over charge of the UT administration to a chief commissioner which would mean jeopardising the states claim to Chandigarh. The replacement of the Punjab Governor as the Administrator of Chandigarh by the Chief Commissioner system widely and fundamentally affects Punjabs claim over Chandigarh, said a source in the Chief Minister office. He added that the move would be seen by Punjabis as a conscious and calculated attempt by the Centre to end the states claim over Chandigarh and the administration of the city would come directly under the Centre. Also the fact remains that Chandigarh is the capital of Punjab. In fact, the issue is a touchy one and any insidious move on part of the Centre can even provoke passion of the Punjabis, added the source. The Badals had also met the Prime Minister over the issue recently, but since there had been no response from the Centre, it is being felt that there was a need to object to the move more strongly, including writing to the Prime Minister. The Chief Minister is believed to have asked his team to also see if a legal remedy is available to the state in case the move fructifies. The Punjab State Reorganisation Act 1966 and the Rajiv Gandhi-Longowal accord are being studied afresh to see if the state has any preferential rights over who will hold the post of the Chief Commissioner. Under Article 239 of the Constitution of India, the government of an adjacent state can be appointed as the Administrator of a Union Territory. Last month, it was reported that the Union Home Ministry had decided to restore the post of the Chief Commissioner and get the requisite changes on the ground by the time the present Punjab Governor and UT Administrator Gen SF Rodriguess (retd) ends his term in mid-November. The post of the Chief Commissioner was created following the Punjab Reorganisation in 1966 and continued till the 1980s when it was felt that a better coordination was required between Punjab and Chandigarh to combat terrorism in the state. |
Centre keen on potable water for Amritsar
Amritsar, October 20 The Centre has granted funds to the tune of over Rs 400 crore for various development projects, identified under the Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). To review the ongoing projects, Joint Secretary of the Prime Minister Office Vini Mahajan, today emphasised on providing safe drinking water and 100 per cent sewerage coverage to the city. Talking to The Tribune, Mahajan said, The Prime Minister, during his several visits to the city, has made promises to uplift the infrastructure of the city, but the main focus would be to provide basic civic amenities like water and sewerage, besides solid waste management and disposal projects. Power supply being the main component for providing round-the-clock water supply and for flushing out sullage, Mahajan evaded replies to queries on the issue. Yes, this is an issue, but it is a state subject, she said, adding that it is not in the right perspective to comment on it. The municipal authorities, too, keen on strengthening the infrastructure, presented a power presentation for the construction and widening of several roads and bridges, including building of new bridges, estimated to cost Rs 141 crore. Mahajan stressed on improving the water supply and sewerage system in the city on a priority basis. Questions are, however, being raised over the claims of the local municipal corporation for the enactment and implementation of rain water harvesting, making it compulsory for buildings measuring 200 sq ft, whereas the ground reality is that nothing of the sort has ever been enforced in the city. Mahajan reviewed the ongoing projects, worth Rs 527 crore, including the ambitious elevated project to decongest the city traffic flow on the main GT Road connecting Golden Temple and five other projects like flats for economically weaker sections for Rs 5.79 crore, augmentation of sewerage in walled city for Rs 36.90 crore and Rs 72.49 crore solid waste management project, besides city bus service for Rs 33.33 crore. She said the Japanese Bank finance water supply and sewerage project had been given green light. |
90 per cent villages sans sewage disposal facility
Baba Bakala, October 20 Meanwhile, the state government has decided to extend the facility of grant of on-the-spot power connections to all religious places for the installation of tubewells on lines of priority power connections for common village lands. Ninety per cent villages in the state are coming across a common problem pertaining to proper disposal of sewage and wastewater. We have taken the task on priority and will come out with an early solution. Not only this, village ponds are the other problem area and these are being cleaned under a NREGA scheme, said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. He was here to hold a sangat darshan programme for residents and panchayats of about 40 villages. He also distributed grants worth Rs 1.40 crore among panchayats for the completion of development projects. Badal said 75 per cent of problems put up before him at todays programme could have been solved at the level of the DC. People should come forth only with those complaints in these programmes which cannot be tackled by local administration officials, said Badal. Talking about standoff between BJP MLA Anil Joshi and Amritsar SSP Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh, Badal said action would be taken only after a thorough probe into the issue. |
Subsidies, resource mobilisation
Chandigarh, October 20 A sub-committee, comprising Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal and Local Bodies and Industries Minister Manoranjan Kalia, was formed on September 20 after the BJP protested against the imposition of power hike on domestic and industrial consumers and demanded that the hike be subsidised.The alliance coordination committee formed a two-member sub-committee to look into ways and means to raise resources to do so, besides assuring that it would approach the State Electricity Regulatory Commission and seek to subsidise the power hike at a later stage. However, with the panel unable to meet even once, the BJP claims that it has raised suspicion among trader and industrial associations as to whether the government stands committed to its assurance, according to senior BJP leader and former minister Balramji Das Tandon. The senior leader today claimed that the government and the PSEB were taking unilateral decisions without taking the agreement between the alliance partners on the issue of power hike into consideration. Tandon claimed that even while power bills had been issued at enhanced rates to consumers, there was not a single clarification from any single agency the PSEB, power department, public relations department or the chief ministers office assuring the public that the government stands committed to its assurance that the enhanced bills would be adjusted later in subsequent bills. Meanwhile, Local Bodies Minister Manoranjan Kalia said a meeting of the committee fixed for October 12 was postponed at the Deputy CMs instance, as the latter was overbusy. I have yet to receive any communication as to when the meeting will happen again, he said. |
4-laning of Amritsar-Attari road likely by June
Amritsar, October 20 Similarly, the second phase of the much-hyped elevated road to the Golden Temple would be completed by June next year, facilitating hassle-free visit by tourists without coming across traffic snarls. There are a number of Centre-sponsored and monitored projects, including the integrated trade check post at Attari, which are witnessing a fast progress, said Vini Mahajan, joint secretary with the Prime Ministers Office, who visited both cities to take stock of the progress of various projects underway at different places in the area. Mahajan said first phase of construction at the Attari railway station was over and customs officials would be shifting to the new building soon. The Government of India is supporting a couple of schemes, including the water supply and sewerage system projects in urban areas of the state. The Centre has earmarked a Rs 400-crore package for various development projects, said Mahajan, who also discussed the progress of the projects with senior administrative officials. She said though the residents and tourists were facing inconvenience owing to delay in completion of the elevated road project, but once the project is completed, they would witness a smooth flow of traffic to the holy city that is an attraction for tourists from across the world. |
Onions give tears to consumers
Amritsar, October 20 Though the common man has been suffering due to this, neither the state nor the Centre has done anything to check the widening gap between retail and wholesale prices of the essential commodities. A quick survey of different markets in the state revealed that consumers were hard-pressed to buy onion at a high price of Rs 25-30 per kg in retail markets in major cities like Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, and Patiala. However, the same was available between Rs 10 and Rs 15 a kg about a month ago. Intriguingly, the wholesale price of good quality onion was between Rs 1,500 and Rs 1,600 a quintal which meant that the wholesale price of the commodity was between Rs 15 and Rs 16 a kg. Onion is priced at Rs 1,500 and Rs 1,600 a quintal in wholesale markets across the Doaba region, confirmed Prince, a Jalandhar-based onion wholesaler. While retailers have been making all out efforts to reap maximum profits by blaming floods in certain Southern states for the sudden hike in onion prices, wholesalers clarified that there was no visible impact of floods on the supply of onion to the North region. In fact, this way the profit of a retailer has jumped up to 100 per cent from a usual of 20-30 per cent, said a trader. The high price of onion has shattered the budget of households and so is in the case of potatoes which are available for a price ranging between Rs 15 and Rs 20 per kg, said Deep Kaur of Silver Enclave colony here. On the other hand, Director of the State Bank of Patiala Ashwani Gupta said on an estimate, the daily vegetable expenditure of a family of four revolved about Rs 1,500 a month. How can a person with an income range of Rs 5,000-6,000 a month survive in such a condition? he asked. |
Slow paddy lifting worries farmers
Fatehgarh Sahib, October 20 Notably, paddy arrival at the market witnessed an upsurge after Diwali and the farmers are finding it hard to store their produce there. The arhtiyas had informed the grain market officials and other senior functionaries about the glut-like situation in the market two days ago, but still the lifting process was not expedited. Deputy Commissioner Yashvir Mahajan and local SDM Poonamdeep Kaur, too, paid a visit to the market yesterday in this regard and took stock of the situation. Their (officials) visit has failed to make any difference. The paddy lifting is still going at the same pace, arhtiyas rued. Meanwhile, the farmers, in the absence of empty space, are being forced to unload their produce on rough patches adjoining the cemented portion, which is posing a risk to the crop. The DFSC also visited the grain market and ordered immediate lifting of entire paddy crop that had been sold off by the farmers, but to no avail. |
PRTC to get 600 new buses soon
Patiala, October 20 Speaking to mediapersons, he said, the SAD-BJP government waived off PRTCs loan amounting to Rs 200 crore and now the corporation is in profit. The said transformation is the result of good governance. He further said that soon the PRTC would get 600 new buses. Under the kilometre scheme, the PRTC will get 150 new buses in near future, he announced. |
Protected monument status for Quila Mubarak
Chandigarh, October 20 The Division Bench of Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Mahesh Grover has even asked the Secretary concerned to be present in the court in case of non-compliance of the earlier orders. As the matter came up, state counsel Rupinder Khosla expressed his inability to say whether the state government had taken any action pursuant to order dated July 22 on inspection and other issues. The Bench observed: We had by the order directed the state government to have property inspected and evaluated afresh and submit a status report whether any part deserves to be declared a protected monument. Khosla says the needful, even if it has not yet been done, shall be done by the state government within three weeks and the status report filed in the court. Fixing November 9 as the next date of hearing, the Bench asserted Khosla and central government counsel OS Batalvi would by then file the status reports. In case the order of July 22 is not complied with by the state government and status report not filed as directed, the Secretary to the state government, in charge of the department concerned, shall remain present in person, the Bench concluded. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has already asserted vested interests are creating hazards for heritage Quila Mubarak in Nabha; and wants the state to protect it from decay and encroachments. The high court is currently hearing a petition filed against the State of Punjab and other respondents by Raj Kumar of Nabha and another petitioner. The petitioners are seeking directions to the respondents to quash the proceedings dated April 17, 2007, based on the state's decision to lease out Quila Mubarak in Patiala district for 66 years. This, they had claimed, was illegal and without jurisdiction. So far, the state has only declared Rani Hall a protected place, leaving out the rest of the Quila out of the process. |
Charges against Dal Khalsa activists dropped
Chandigarh, October 20 The Sessions Court had framed charges against the activists, including Dal president Harcharanjit Singh Dhami, for hoisting what they referred to as the sarkar-e-khalsa flag on January 26, 2005. After hearing advocate Navkiran Singh on behalf of the Dal activist, Justice Kumar quashed the sedition and other charges under Sections 153-B, 124-A and 120-B of the IPC. Kanwarpal Singh of the Dal Khalsa said while the FIR named 10 top leaders, reference was made to another 25 unidentified persons. He said the name of Khalistani ideologue, Jagjit Singh Chohan, was also mentioned in the case.
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Raman amplification in multimode fibers with random mode coupling
Optics Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 8, pp. 1188-1190 (2013)
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We present the theory of Raman amplification in long multimode optical fibers, where strong random mode coupling within groups of quasi-degenerate modes is unavoidable. In such fibers, the signal components in modes that belong to the same strongly coupled group experience the same Raman amplification, where the differential gain is linearly dependent on the aggregate powers of the pump in each of the mode groups. The equations that we derive significantly facilitate the numerical and analytical study of Raman amplification in long multimode fibers.
© 2013 Optical Society of America
OCIS Codes
(060.2330) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics communications
(060.4230) Fiber optics and optical communications : Multiplexing
(290.5910) Scattering : Scattering, stimulated Raman
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Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
Original Manuscript: January 16, 2013
Revised Manuscript: February 27, 2013
Manuscript Accepted: February 28, 2013
Published: April 1, 2013
Cristian Antonelli, Antonio Mecozzi, and Mark Shtaif, "Raman amplification in multimode fibers with random mode coupling," Opt. Lett. 38, 1188-1190 (2013)
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Review: Clued in on Clooney By Porter Anderson, CNN ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- It's not that you expect her to turn up in white buck shoes. Still, Debby Boone is the daughter of Pat Boone. And she spent a lot of time doing Christian music. She was good at it, too. She pulled down Grammys in 1977 (best new artist), 1980 (best inspirational performance) and 1984 with Phil Driscoll (best gospel performance for a duo or group). In fact, you may still be holding "You Light Up My Life" against her. With 10 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard's charts in 1977, it even won best song at the Oscars that year. Now, all is forgiven. Did you know that Boone is the wife of Gabriel Ferrer, son of Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney? Did you know that when Clooney died close to three years ago, she'd given all her arrangements to daughter-in-law Boone? Concord Records, Clooney's recording-label home from the 1970s, has done us the favor of setting us very straight: Boone isn't just the lucky owner of John Oddo's arrangements; she's also a remarkably gifted heir to the Clooney canon. Don't be put off by the Stepford CD cover photo. In "Reflections of Rosemary," Boone does much more than simply cover a few Clooney hits. She makes this CD her own, choosing each cut -- some of them Clooney's, some of them might have been -- for specific relevance to a memory of her former mother-in-law. Stylistic evolution At the end of the CD, you hear a family tape of Clooney doing "Blue Skies" for her grandson, Boone's son Jordan. That trademark Clooney hustle is there in force, right down to the "big finish!" she announces just before singing the final phrase. Clooney was a creature of that peculiar tomboy-shout sound so common to several singers of the last century. For Ethel Merman, it was a bark. For Clooney, a hoot. For Boone, it's a sigh, and a sweet one. Boone is her own woman. And her rendition of "Blue Skies" is threatened by the subtle clouds of melancholy always just over Irving Berlin's horizon. Things get even more serious in Randy Newman's "I'll Be Home," which Boone has chosen to conjure a feeling of attachment she recalls to Clooney's welcoming home. It's a meditative, pointed rendition, determinedly quiet. Never read liner notes? Make an exception just this once. Boone explains her choice of each selection, noting, for example, that Clooney had no use for pre-show preparations. "The extent of her vocal warm-up," Boone writes, "was a quick pass at the opening melody from 'The Best Is Yet To Come' (bah-DAH, bah-DAH, bah-DAH ...) and then one good cough and she'd head for the stage." When Boone starts singing her own bossa-brilliant "The Best Is Yet To Come," hit your Repeat button. You'll want to listen several times to the razor-sharp modulation Oddo's arrangement pulls off in this one, getting Boone into briefly eerie territory. That's its own warm-up for the gentle, brooding combo she makes of Sinatra's "It Never Entered My Mind" and "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning." Day-light How does Debby Boone sound doing jazz? Like Doris Day at night. Boone is perfectly adept at the sort of opening-phrase glissandi that Day favored, but it doesn't come off as a grown woman trying to sound girlish when Boone goes for it. There were times you might want to have yelled, "Oh, grow up," even to Ella Fitzgerald for this sort of thing. Not Boone. She sings her 40-something age and the effort rings classy. No less a light than John Pizzarelli contributes warm guitar to Boone's "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face." Oddo's original arrangement for "You're Gonna Hear From Me," in Boone's care, has all the everything's-coming-up-roses optimism you'd expect from his first song for Clooney. Throughout this CD, Oddo has contributed each track's notably clean piano work while conducting the larger ensemble. He and Boone reassure us, one cut after the next, that we're in the hands accomplished pros who know what Clooney meant to them and to a couple of generations whose lives seemed at times to be scored by her music. And finally, it's in a song that Clooney didn't record that Boone and Oddo find their best moment, the restless Dave Frishberg "You Are There." "Pretend the dream was true," Boone sings, ever so slightly wobbling in the last two bars: "And tell myself that you are there." Find this article at: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/18/boone.clooney A Musical Legacy With a new album dedicated to her mother-in-law, Rosemary Clooney, a wiser yet still youthful Debby Boone reflects on her musical roots and fortunate life. WEB EXCLUSIVE: By Jac Chebatoris - Newsweek - Updated: 8:19 a.m. ET April 29, 2005 April 28 - The woman who sang �You Light Up My Life��the biggest hit of 1977, which sold in excess of 4 million copies�says she never made a dime off the record. But Debby Boone is not bitter. �Because of that song, a career opened up and I was able to make money in performance,� she says. Boone�s latest album, �Reflections of Rosemary,� is a loving tribute to her legendary mother-in-law, Rosemary. (Only two years after her Grammy win in 1977, Boone married Gabriel Ferrer, the son of Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer.) When Clooney died in 2002, Boone inherited all of her musical arrangements, a �treasure chest,� as Boone calls it. If such a thing exists as a 48-year-old debutante, then Boone is it, using her love and connection to a musical lineage�on both sides of her family; her father is Pat Boone�as a coming-out party. �I�m not the 21-year-old girl with the flower stuck to the side of her head,� Boone says. �I�m a woman with a lot of life experience under my belt now, and so much to sing about.� The ever-youthful Boone spoke with NEWSWEEK�s Jac Chebatoris about fame, fortune and family. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: What is the one thing you want to tell people to dispel the Debby Boone-squeakier-clean-than-thou-persona of the '70s? Debby Boone: It�s hard to cull it down to one thing because I do think that the general public has such a misconception of who I am. The thing that has always disturbed me the most is if people think that from that squeaky-clean, religious persona that somehow I�m judgmental of everyone else�that sickens me. Nothing could be further from the truth. And, with this new project coming out, this has been the strongest statement that I�ve ever made musically. When is the last time you either listened to or sang �You Light Up My Life?� Oh, wow. Fairly recently, you know, because it�s required. At family gatherings, you mean? Or if someone sees you in the grocery store? No way! But I hear it on Muzak. I�ve actually had the shocking experience of sitting at a softball game and hearing an ice-cream truck go by playing it. Isn�t that scary? It�s come to this�it�s now ice-cream-truck material! It must have been overwhelming to be thrust into the spotlight back in �77, when you were only 21. Oh, absolutely. It was pretty mind-spinning. It was exciting, it was scary. I didn�t feel ready even though I had been traveling and doing concerts with my family. I was part of a group, and it was just completely different when you�re called upon to do a whole show and be a performer, and I had no solo experience so it was pretty scary. It seemed like a backlash came with it�people were trying to find something to knock you down a bit. It was either/or. You either loved me or hated me in those days. And I think the hate part came from people who were like, �Oh, please, nobody can be that sweet and that good, and where�s the catch?� You did some Christian records and won Grammys for those, as well. Is your faith still a big part of who you are? I have not done any recording of contemporary Christian music for 10 years, easily, but I never intended for that kind of music to define a career. I was singing about something I really believe in, I�m passionate about, and I wanted that to be just something I could do, not something that would define what I do now for a career. The spirituality part is still really the center of my life, but I�m an entertainer and I want to go out and do music and entertain, and I don�t include that everywhere I go. It�s who I am, it�s not what I do. Your grandfather, musician Red Foley, had known Rosemary, and your father worked with her husband, Jose Ferrer�who later, obviously became your father-in-law. It is like you were destined to end up in that family. It was bizarre, wasn�t it? Initially the way the families came together is that I started dating my husband�s older brother. I dated the older one first! Miguel [Ferrer], the actor. We really only dated for a couple of weeks as we both rebounded out of our high-school first loves. Then a year later I started dating Gabri [Gabriel Ferrer] who is the third of their five kids. Rosemary seemed so larger than life. Was that daunting at first? Not at first because my focus was very much on one brother, and then the other, and I knew she was obviously famous, but I had not been someone who had bought her records or listened to her music particularly. But once Gabri and I were really an item, I began to go to some of her shows and just fell head over heels for her as a fan. She moved me in such a powerful way that I was just at her feet learning from then on. Later, after [Gabriel and I] were married she asked to put the family in her Christmas shows, and we traveled around for several years where I got to work with her and, I often say, it was really like a master class, it really was. What did it mean to you that she left you all of her arrangements after she died? It was humbling. It was almost like a frightening responsibility, and I knew there was this treasure chest that I still haven�t really gotten in there to see ... It was a phenomenal legacy for me. I�ll be using some of them in the shows I�ll be doing now, and on this record we used a couple of arrangements that John Oddo had done for her for stage. He was her musical director for 20 years, who is working with me now. I think the most stunning thing to me is that she trusted me to use them. You clearly had such a great relationship with her. We did. We really did. I really feel like I have lived, in so many ways, a charmed life. Not just Rosemary�it�s the whole family. I had a wonderful relationship with Jose and all of my husband�s brothers and sisters. His sister is one of my absolutely closest friends. Out of your four children, somebody has to be carrying on the torch seeing as the musical legacy reaches down both sides of the family. It�s really looking like my youngest, Tessa, who is in New York studying to be an actress. My other three are pretty shy about being right up in the public forum like that. We nicknamed her Eve Harrington when we were working on the stage together [from the Bette Davis movie �All About Eve�]. So you�ll be doing a run of dates in May at the cabaret club Feinstein�s in New York, but aside from that do you plan on touring behind this record? Oh yeah. I love performing and this is kind of a new genre for me to be in�cabaret and jazz clubs�they�re small and more intimate. I think once I get past the initial, �Ooh, I�ve never done this before,� I�m going to love it more than anything. Whose idea was it for your father to show up at the American Music Awards in 1997 dressed in chains and a leather vest with fake tattoos to promote his new album? An album of heavy-metal covers, I might add. That was his own insanity! He shocked us all. We couldn�t believe it�none of us�including my son Jordan who was in junior high at the time, and he�s watching the American Music Awards and saw my dad and buried his head in his hands and said, �Is there no way to stop him?� [Laughs.] I thought it was insane. All the metalheads loved it. They thought it was so great. And then all of his normal fan base was so threatened by it; they couldn�t take a joke. It was ridiculous. Keep your eyes peeled because there�s some other wacky thing he�s going to do, I�m sure. We�re due for another Pat Boone shocker.
FaceTime with Debby Boone
Miriam Di Nunzio - April 28, 2005, www.suntimes.com So perhaps you've been wondering: whatever happened to that perky little popster Debby Boone?
And now, That Song has crept into your mind,
hasn't it?
But in the years since "You Light Up My
Life," Boone, now 48, (daughter of singer Pat Boone and
daughter-in-law of the late Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer)
has been quite busy bringing up four children and making music. That
includes her latest disc, a tribute to her famous musicmaking in-law,
titled "Reflections of Rosemary" (Concord), released Tuesday. Q. What was it like having Rosemary Clooney for a mother-in-law? A. She was incredibly loving and fun, and she really loved me, so it wasn't one of those adversarial relationships. But she was also my idol professionally. So having easy access to her was like having a master class in music any time I wanted one. Q. The album features an a cappella rendition of "Blue Skies" by Rosemary. Where did that come from? A. She took a little handheld cassette recorder and just sang the song to her first grandson, my son Jordan. They were very close. She'd take him everywhere with her, on vacations, on the road. They would sing the song all the time. To have this cassette is just extraordinary. Q. What do you want the album to say about Rosemary Clooney? A. I didn't want to cover her hits. Bette Midler did that and she was the best artist to do that. I wanted this collection of songs to convey this big-hearted, fun, one-of-a-kind person. It's a tribute to her life, not a cover album. Q. "You Light Up My Life" became one of those songs that people love to hate. Did you get to the point where it made you sick, too? A. [Laughing.] Of course. Anytime you sing something over and over and over, it's bound to get to you. But I can also proudly say that I have a No. 1 hit. And that I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the "One-Hit Wonder Wall." I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't. I just don't understand that. Q. What about your dad going heavy metal a few years back? A. [Laughing.] What was he thinking? I was shocked, but of course he wasn't serious about it. My son Jordan, who was only in junior high and had to face his friends at school the next day, had the best line when we saw it on television. He said, "Is there no way to stop him?"
Rosie release Actress, singer, recording artist, author, wife and mother are just a few of the words that describe Debby Boone. Debby became a household name when her hit single, "You Light Up My Life" became an overnight success, topping the Billboard Charts for ten weeks and selling in excess of four million copies worldwide (the album was certified multi-platinum). The song went on to win an Academy Award for Best Song in a Motion Picture, and Debby received the GRAMMY Award for Best New Artist of the Year. Since her remarkable entrance to the music industry, she has won two additional GRAMMY Awards and has received seven GRAMMY nominations. MAY is the month for Mother's Day, and also Rosemary Clooney's birthday. For two weeks in May, Debby will celebrate both occasions by bringing her show: DEBBY BOONE Reflections of Rosemary to Feinstein's at the Regency in New York City. (Clooney's performance opened the club for the Regency in 1999) In addition to her recording career, Debby has starred as the lead in numerous stage productions, such as Seven Brides For Seven Brothers on Broadway and as Maria in Lincoln Center's 30th Anniversary production of The Sound of Music, which garnered a Drama Desk nomination. She also starred as Rizzo in the Broadway production of Grease, and toured nationally in Meet Me In St. Louis. In 2004, Debby performed the role of Anna in a 50th Anniversary staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I. Debby, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Gabriel Ferrer, and their four children, has written six children's books, which were illustrated by Ferrer. |