[vsnet-chat 766] Re: Sn questions

[bas@lowell.Lowell.Edu (Brian Skiff)]

     My reading of the professional literature is that some of the brighter
supernovae get followed-up by professionals (and/or students), but not all
of them do.  One does not know ahead of time which events will be poorly
studied.  I think the driver is probably the spectroscopic interest rather
than merely whether an event is bright or not (although the brightest
events will surely be well observed, such as with the M81 and M51 SNe).
Photometric monitoring for such events will be valuable as an aid in 
interpreting the spectroscopy.  The photometry is more useful if it is
done with a standard filter, such as R for CCD observers.

\Brian

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