Greg Aldering was unable to attend, but sent the following update: Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:20:32 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Aldering To: Hans-Werner Braun Subject: Re: 2008 HPWREN Annual Users Workshop Hi Hans-Werner, Our first generation Nearby Supernova Factory search finished up at Palomar at the end of September. In total we found 1000 supernovae over roughly 28 months of searching in the period 2005-2008, and we have obtained intensive spectroscopy for about 185 of the most interesting cases. In terms of the area of sky covered, the depth of the images, and the frequency with which the sky was monitored the Nearby Supernova Factory was the largest nearby supernova search ever conducted. This never would have been possible without HPWREN - thank you! We are now busy analyzing the data and preparing papers for publication. Here is an example of a recent conference proceeding: arxiv.org/pdf/0810.3499v2 I'll send links to additional papers as they appear. There is also a major effort here at NERSC to reprocess the Palomar images and generate a sky atlas that can be served over the internet. In the coming years we expect to be involved in the new Palomar Transient Factory. This effort is trying to study all types of variable stars, and we will continue our focus on the subset that are our favorites for cosmology - those of Type Ia. Also, I believe you know that Charlie Baltay of Yale is moving his camera - the one formerly at Palomar - down to the Chilean Andes. We will be working with him on the supernovae discovered there - and hope that an HPWREN-like connection will enable us to get the data swiftly. Greg