Re: new version of HST proposal posted

From: Nino Panagia (panagia@stsci.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 14:28:39 PST

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    Dear ALL,

    I have been kept busy with other "needy" proposals and only now I had a
    chance to peruse our Cycle 16 HST_cluster_SN proposal.

    I must admit that it makes me proud to be part of the team because it
    looks VERY good, and reads VERY well.

    I have just a few VERY MINOR comments to offer, mostly on the SNIa part
    on which I feel more competent:

    - Everywhere in the text the proper expression to use should be
    "signal-to-noise ratio" rather than "signal-to-noise". I recognize that
    it sounds pedantic and may look awkward in sentences and, therefore, I
    suggest to use it "properly" just at the beginning and to define an
    acronym, perhaps "snr", to be used in the rest of the proposal.
    - To separate the various references from each other I would recommend
    using a "fuller" symbol, such as a "bullet" sign, rather than the Sun
    symbol because it is more easily recognizible when "scanning" the list
    in search for a specific reference.
    - The reference to Mannucci et al. (2006) is missing from the reference
    list: "Mannucci, F., et al. 2006, MNRAS, 370, 773".
    - When talking about the SNIa rate possibly being higher in the past,
    thus explaning the high [Fe/H] in the ICM (about 2/3 of page 6),
    reference should be made to a recent paper by Matteucci et al. (2006:
    Matteucci, F., et al. 2006, MNRAS 372, 265) that studies the
    consequences of the two-population origin of SNIa on the chemical
    evolution of galaxies.

    This is all I have for the moment. More possibly later...

    Ciao - Nino

    P.S. Innocent (i.e. NOT interested in galaxy clusters or SNIa)
    bystanders, who happened to glance at the figures included in the
    proposal when I was retrieving my copy from the printer, were VERY
    impressed because the figures looked quite "effective" and
    "professional": another positive pint in favor of our proposal!

    Tony Spadafora wrote:
    >
    > Cluster search group,
    >
    > The working draft of the cycle 16 proposal on
    > http://supernova.lbl.gov/HSTclusterSN/proposals/HSTc16/clusters/text/
    > (HSTclusterSN/HSTclusterSN)
    >
    > has Wednesday's reworking of various sections. Comments are
    > welcome. There are still embedded internal questions and ?'s in
    > various places. Sci Just will need to be cut a little (~11 lines).
    > Some of the figures need work. All of the captions and references
    > will need to be checked.
    >
    > -Tony

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