From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 17:17:02 PDT
How much time might Pilar have?
Here's the thought. This time around, since we'll have 6-week old
images, we should be able to tell the difference between a very early
moderate-redshift supernova and a very late moderate redshift
supernova. (Probably most of those low %INC supernovae found on bright
galaxies that Adam found and we didn't thanks to our %INC cut were very
old supernovae, since they're older longer than they're very young.)
If we do find some very young ones, they might be worth following.
Probably not so much for cosmology -- more supernovae at z~0.4 don't do
a lot for that nowadays, and we'll only have a couple. But, for more
early lightcurves. This would also be interesting for Ib and Ic
supernovae.
As such, I would suggest that if Pilar does have time that she can use,
we use it in the next couple of searches to follow a few candidates we
believe are moderate redshift, very early candidates. (Not worrying
about whether they are Ia's, Ib's, Ic's, or whatever, since ths would be
more for supernova science than cosmology.)
-Rob
-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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