Re: pilar thought

From: Tony Spadafora (ALSpadafora@lbl.gov)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 19:11:51 PDT

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    Hi Rob,

    I believe Pilar had only May 10, 11 at WHT.
    -Tony

    On May 15, 2004, at 5:17 PM, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:

    > 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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