From: Saul Perlmutter (saul@LBL.gov)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 16:26:57 PST
...Adam had asked me if I could write up our "official" request for the 10
extra Director's Discretionary (DD) time orbits that he had promised us as
part of the original deal to divorce us from the Scoville proposal. I said I
would, if he could send me the "informal" request email that we had sent, and
the Director's response. I'll remind Adam that I need something from him for
this.
"Rachel G." wrote:
> Okie doke. Thanks Rob.
>
> I will look at Adam's RPS2 to see what he may be
> scheduling to do. But obviously if Saul has more immediate
> info, that will be good.
>
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:25:14AM -0800, Rachel G. wrote:
> > > Two issues: 1. Our PC believes we do have to include
> > > the additional search orbits in our RPS2. 2. We have to
> > > submit a change request because we originally only proposed
> > > for NICMOS time. I haven't gone to the change request form
> > > to look, but the bigger issue is, how many search orbits do
> > > we really have, and how will they be split between searches
> > > and fields? Given the search is to be coordinated on some
> > > level with Adam, was he submitting all the search orbits?
> > > Rob, can you fill us in on your conversation with Adam
> > > before we proceed?
> >
> > I have to admit that at the moment, I am extremely confused about how
> > the search orbit RPS2 stuff goes.
> >
> > Regarding my conversations with Adam: I've told him that our plan is to
> > do the searching at our home institutions, just getting the
> > basic-pre-processed data over here and running our stuff on it. I
> > believe this is fine with Adam, although it is different from what he
> > had been led to believe in conversations with Saul (where side-by-side
> > searching was what he was envisioning). He also says that when it's not
> > "his turn", i.e. he doesn't have first refusal on the supernovae, he may
> > do a more stripped down search (i.e. just him and Lou searching rather
> > than a more full-court press). I told him that I, anyway, am planning
> > on a full-court press for every search.
> >
> > Regarding proposals for search orbits, my previous understanding was
> > that that was all in the bag. What Adam has said is:
> >
> > you guys "volunteered" (Saul and I discussed this in Cleveland) to
> > submit a DD request for the other 10 orbits we need for searching
> >
> > I know nothing about this, and am very clueless. Saul? What's the
> > deal? What do we need to do? Since this is DD, does it have to go with
> > the rest of the RPSII?
> >
> > The dates of the searches, as Adam knows it, are:
> >
> > BETWEEN 1-JAN-2004 AND 4-JAN-2004
> > BETWEEN 19-FEB-2004 AND 22-FEB-2004
> > BETWEEN 8-APR-2004 AND 11-APR-2004
> > BETWEEN 25-MAY-2004 AND 27-MAY-2004
> >
> > That's everything I know right now.
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> > --
> > --Prof. Robert Knop
> > Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
> > robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
> >
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