From: Rachel A. Gibbons (ragibbons@lbl.gov)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 13:19:20 PDT
On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Saul Perlmutter wrote:
> Hi Rachel,
> Starting from one of the canned scenarios, we should come up with
> some varients that work for the following cases (I'm betting you're
> already working on this?):
>
> -- A type Ia supernova found near max at z ~ 1.45
> -- A second supernova in the same field at z ~ 0.85 (which might want a
> few more z-band epochs than the z~1.45 supernova)
> -- A situation in which we determine from the grism spectrum that we
> don't need to continue follow the z ~ 1.45 supernova, because it turns
> out to be a Type Ibc. In this case we may just cancel all the
> remaining follow-up (what do we know about whether we can now do a
> cancellation irrespective of where we are in the calendar or whether it
> is important to put observations right at the beginning of the "next"
> calendar to make this possible?). Alternatively, we might still keep
> following the z~0.85 SN, but drop some of the J or H band observations?
> -- A further possibility would be to *add* some extra orbits -- if we
> are closed to using all of ours up and we might as well finish them all
> up with this run. This could allow a point or points at the CMAGIC epoch.
We're working on all of this here.
> Note: Vitaliy is now checking the lightcurve of Nessi to see if we
> might not be too far after max on it, since this could also change some
> of these considerations.
Fine. Although, whatever we find about Nessie shouldn't alter our
considerations much. We're not going to get much out of it with a couple
of z-band points. Grism might be useful for IDing it at least. But it's
gotta be pretty old by now.
Anyway, back to work.
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