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