Hi Peter,
Thanks for the follow-up which is very much appreciated.
In fact when I first read the press release I had you and the BOSS team
in mind with the decision of re-posting it.
So it is absolutely wonderful to hear that the cited object was one that
Greg had discovered! That's fantastic!
Having said that, between you all having done such a splendid job
in discovering so many, perhaps statistically it shouldn't come as a
surprise at all.
It was the second last paragraph in the press release that really caught
my attention when they said, "What we’re seeing is in stark contrast to
what we’ve always believed about Type Ia supernovae and it's going to
impact the way we apply Type Ia light curves to cosmological models in
the future."
I am not sure if this is implying the discovery has slightly ruffled how
Type Ia's were being used as standard candles? As I understand it,
their peak luminosity was used for that metric, so perhaps you understand
better what the implications of the plateauing is in that regard?