First Informal Zwicky Workshop

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First Informal Zwicky Workshop

• S. R. Kulkarni
• California Institute of Technology

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Why this workshop?

• Cosmic Explosions area of common interest
• Promote cross-town collaboration
• Harness LCO, Palomar, Keck and Magellan to make
  Pasadena the leading center in cosmic explosions

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Carnegie Effort

• Major initiative on Ia SNe at LCO (Freedman,
  Phillips talk)
• Campanas Swope 40-inch (C40)
• Campanas du Pont 100-inch (C100)
• Magellan Telescopes (Baade Clay)

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Developments at Palomar

• Palomar 48-inch (P48) now equipped with mosaic
  CCD (QUEST)
• - Yale Intermediate SN program
• - LBL SN Factory for local Ia SNe
• Palomar 60-inch (P60) now robotocized and
  currently equipped with CCD imager
• - Ready to respond to SWIFT
• sLOTIS partnership with P60

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Caltech Effort

• NuStars, SMEX mission focussed on nuclear lines
  (Harrison talk)
• Collapsars (Soderberg)
• SNe cosmology (Ellis talk)
• GRB Program (Fox, Park)

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Learn from Experts

• Lick Observatory SN Program (Li)
• ESSENCE (Kirshner)
• SN Factory (Wood-Vasey)
• PanSTARRS (Price)
• RAPTOR (Vestrand)

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Zwicky

• The greatest astrophysicst at Caltech
• supernovae
• neutron stars
• dark matter
• clusters
• interacting blue galaxies
• Not recognized as such either locally or
  nationally
• Deserved a great observatory
  recognition

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To all speakers

• Please introduce yourself
• Please give your flash disk to Avishay in advance
  of talk
• Talks (ppt files) will be posted on the web (if
  permitted by the speaker)

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If Zwicky was here he would say.

• This meeting is a spherically useful meeting!