Re: We should *first* go through good candidates WITH hosts (much higher priority).

From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 14:56:55 PDT

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    On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 02:54:47PM -0700, Saul Perlmutter wrote:
    > The plan was that we should *first* go through good candidates WITH
    > hosts and study them in depth (much higher priority), because these
    > would be the ones that we "trigger" on -- and then we add host-less SNe
    > that can fit in the same ACS field so that we get their z-band
    > lightcurve for free. (If we're really lucky there will be a good
    > host-less candidate that will fit on the same NICMOS field, but that
    > would be very rare.)

    Yes, but this first CR check is relatively fast and should be done for
    everything, because it will quickly remove most of the candidates of all
    sorts from any need for further consideration.

    -Rob 

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--Prof. Robert Knop
  Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
  robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu

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