alternate word for "follow-up"?

Arnold Rots arots at cfa.harvard.edu
Mon Apr 28 06:47:50 PDT 2014


We distinguish between "monitoring" for intentionally monitoring a source
for variability,
and "follow-up" for TOOs where the subsequent behavior  of a single event
is studied.
("we" being Chandra)

  - Arnold

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Arnold H. Rots                                          Chandra X-ray
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 3:32 PM, 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?
>
> Rob
>
>
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