Re: A quick update on the Decelerating and Dustfree HST budget and first observations.

From: Andrew Fruchter (fruchter@stsci.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 09:22:29 PDT

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    Hi Saul,

    I don't think I ever did anything here --- beyond our discussion.

    Did you submit figures rounded down 25%? Do I need to do anything on
    my end?

    Sorry for possibly dropping the ball... August was a crazy month.
    We did however submit our Nature paper on GRBs and SNe -- so the
    crazyness may have paid off.

    All the best,

    Andy

    On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:52 AM, Saul Perlmutter wrote:

    > Hello HST Cluster SN team,
    >
    > Well, I finally called STScI to find out why we hadn't heard any
    > word about the budget, and discovered that, for some reason, the
    > notification letter had been sent by old-fashioned hard-copy mail,
    > not email, and hadn't yet arrived. The upshot is that I found out
    > that we were in fact awarded funding. As expected, we were
    > somewhat cut back, to 75% of our requested level. So we will be
    > asked to resubmit all of our budgets at that level. If all of you
    > who have submitted budgets could send me your revised budget
    > numbers, I'll confirm with STScI that we are within the allocation
    > (probably everybody should round down, to make sure we don't just
    > go over).
    >
    > Meanwhile, for those who haven't heard, our very first two
    > search orbits were completed and there were no supernovae to be
    > followed in them. (The probability of a supernova to trigger
    > NICMOS follow-up is about 1 in 12 such orbits searched.) These
    > were observations of the XMM z = 1.4 cluster, and an RCS z= 0.96
    > cluster. This coming Sunday we should get four more cluster
    > observations. (Don't forget that the schedule of observations is
    > available near the top of the HSTclusterSN.lbl.gov web page, if you
    > ever want to check what observations are coming up.)
    >
    > More news and/or phone conference soon. Regards, --Saul
    >
    >
    >



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