From: clidman (clidman@eso.org)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 21:01:06 PDT
Dear All,
I will be flying from Paranal to Santiago on the evening of the 4th. The half nights
are scheduled for the second half of the night, so I will be able to submit the OBs
to Paranal when I return to Santiago.
Both Gabriele and I will be in Santiago to reduce the data, so the results will be on
the web within a day of the observations.
Cheers, Chris.
Saul Perlmutter wrote:
> Hi Pierre, Reynald, Julien, Ariel, and Chris,
>
> At the phone meeting we realized that there is a rather short (or negative?)
> time between the CFHT discovery nights on May 2 and 4 and the VLT spectroscopy
> followup half-nights on May 4, 5, and 6. In principle we have saved about 14
> hours of VLT time to be used up in these three half nights (so the weather better be
> close to perfect) -- and this is purely for the CFHT discoveries. (Note that the
> CTIO discoveries will be too late, and the Suburu fields observed this month are not
> visible from the southern hemisphere.)
>
> So the issue is to make sure that the CFHT data from May 2 can be analyzed fast
> enough to have all the candidates and their finding charts on the web in time for
> May 4 at VLT, and then (even harder) try to analyze the CFHT data from May 4 in time
> for May 5 at the VLT, if possible. Last month, obviously, was a slower requirement
> (and a chance to get the software ready), but does this sound reasonable for this
> month?
>
> One other minor suggestion: It's probably a good idea to come up with some
> easy-to-use supernova candidate numbers that you use to identify the CFHT supernovae
> (at least until you get them into the SNtrak database, after which we can use the
> C02-XXX name). We were having a problem with all of the international team trying
> to keep track of all the hard to spell/pronounce/remember Asterix names(!) and other
> names -- and this was particularly a problem when it came time to check to make sure
> that all of the supernova candidates were in fact registered in the SNtrak
> comprehensive list.
>
> Last topic: please send deepnews anything you guys know now about who will be
> where (and how to contact them) during the upcoming search nights (and what part of
> the analysis you're expecting to do where), so everybody knows in time for the next
> steps.
>
> Now we just have to hope for some very lucky weather!! See you soon (some of
> you?). --Saul
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