alternate word for "follow-up"?

[Ashish Mahabal]

Hi,

It will clearly depend on the context.

"We will choose targets for follow-up"
"We will choose targets to nail their class/identity"
...

-ashish

On Apr 25, 2014, at 1:29 PM, Norman Gray wrote:

> 
> Rob, hello.
> 
> On 2014 Apr 25, at 20:32, Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu> wrote:
> 
>> It has been mentioned that “follow-up” is a weak word for choosing targets for observing programs based on time varying phenomena.
>> 
>> Suggestions for stronger terminology?
> 
> I think that 'followup' would be better.  Include the hyphen, and you're just ramming words together in a semiliterate fashion; remove it, and you're minting language.  The latter is a much stronger term.
> 
> I can't see anything wrong with 'followup' as a term of art, and can't see any reasonable alternative.  Anything else you go for will be mere periphrasis for 'followup'.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
> -- 
> Norman Gray  :  http://nxg.me.uk
> SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
> 

Ashish Mahabal
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~aam




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