From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Fri May 28 2004 - 08:07:42 PDT
I asked Dan Green what was up, and this was his response.
In my opinion, he's full of shit and we need to get rid of him.
I don't want to do this, but I suggest that somebody else unilaterally
create a place for people to send in supernova info -- something like
that apparent supernova page. (I could get it working in a frikkin'
day, but again I don't want to do it.)
Announce it, do an end-run around Dan Green, and the SN community would
rejoice to be free of this guy.
-Rob
----- Forwarded message from Dan Green <dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu> -----
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 01:27:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dan Green <dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu>
To: robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
cc: green@cfa.harvard.edu
Subject: supernovae
Hi... That was actually a tough call, and we almost put it
on the webpage for unconfirmed supernovae candidates. The
obvious difference is having several nights of observations
in this case, whereas the others had nothing more than 45
minutes worth of data.... But you're quite right that there's
no proof that 2004bx is a supernova, and we're less likely to
designate those in the future without either a really solid
lightcurve or a spectrum.
Kind regards,
Dan Green
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Daniel W. E. Green [dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu]
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
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-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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