From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu May 09 2002 - 15:54:18 PDT
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:49:55PM -0700, Greg Aldering wrote:
>
> Does anyone have a rationale for following the "BEGINNING OF THE NIGHT"
> candidates listed by Rob in his last e-mail? At Keck the SDF will be
> visible at twilight, so all resources will be directed there and then
> to the 14h+05d region.
>
> I guess if we have an excess of spectroscopy time we could confirm the
> early-night candidates, however, these really can't be followed for
> long (2 weeks or so) at WIYN or TNG.
I would say put them at lower priority. However, some are pretty
bright, and if you spend (say) 1/2 hour at the beginning of the night
each night at Keck and/or VLT on them, we might confirm them; it's
conceivable we'll get a usable lightcurve out of it. Not terribly far
down, but enough to get a stretch.
In any event, it is definitely important to go after the best
*end*-of-night candidates. I believe 14h+5 will set at Keck before the
end of the night; it certainly will at WIYN and TNG come June, so it
would be nice to have confirmed candidates there.
-Rob
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