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

From: Tony Spadafora (ALSpadafora@lbl.gov)
Date: Thu Sep 08 2005 - 10:51:32 PDT

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    Hi Andy,

    We've been swamped here, too, and have not yet submitted the revised
    budget. We will do that early next week. It's due next Friday, Sept 16.
      You will also need to revise your budget down by 25% and resubmit it.

    -Tony

    On Sep 8, 2005, at 9:22 AM, Andrew Fruchter wrote:

    > 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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