Re: Warning: three identical CFHT candidates in SNTrak

From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 16 2002 - 13:53:29 PDT

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    > C02-006 Asterix 14:00:08.0+04:54:45.0 0 6 SN 7 24.06 22.80 17
    > C02-010 Asterix 14:00:08.0+04:54:45.6 2 5 SN? 8 24.06 22.80 17
    > C02-011 Asterix 14:00:08.0+04:54:45.6 3 4 SN 8 24.06 22.80 17
    >
    > This is very confusing.
    >
    > Please, please when you're adding candidates check to make sure that
    > they are not already present. This includes checking for candidates
    > which have been delisted because of low priority. There is an option
    > for what your priority threshold is on the main page.
    >
    > I'm going to just leave this in the database, but this make me
    > unhappy. SNTrak was designed as a convenience, please be careful with
    > it.

    I'd recommend changing both "follow priority" and "candidate quality" to
    -1 for C02-010 and C02-011, and adding a comment to each that "this
    candidate is really C02-006".

    And, as Michael says, whenever you are adding a candidate, make sure
    that it doesn't already exist. I will look into putting a warning on
    candidates with "too close" RA and Dec values when you add them; I may
    have that feature implemented by the beginning of next week, but not
    before.

    -Rob

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