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Add the possibility of using supernovae or novae as a method for finding dwarfs #8

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rbiswas4 opened this issue Aug 16, 2017 · 1 comment

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Within the SN group, @reneehlozek and I are interested is understanding how supernovae in LSST may be used for novel scientific purposes in conjunction with other groups. One of the ideas1 that have been thrown around is that SN/or even novae going off in dwarfs maybe easier to detect than the dwarfs themselves, and the indication of location of dwarfs might enable one to throw additional resources into following up a small area of the sky thereby detecting dim dwarfs at higher distances. Obviously, this is an idea which has its share of complications (rates in dwarfs, false positives, etc.) but we are trying to start up this discussion with people interested in DM to understand if this is considered useful enough to think about by them (for example we have had conversations with @kadrlica and @jeffcarlin).

It might be useful to have this possibility reflected in the table. (Added following discussion with @wadawson in community

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kadrlica commented Sep 1, 2017

Sounds cool! If you want to do any development on this angle of dwarf discovery, please feel free to add a subdirectory to the LSSTDarkMatter repo.

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