Scheduling in Targeted Transient Surveys and a New Telescope for CHASE
Figure 2
Example of how the detection probabilities are calculated. is the cadence; is the time period when the transient remains detectable and is the time period when the transient remains detectable while it is younger than . In this case, the cadence is shorter than , which means that some transient events of the type of interest could have already been seen in the first observation, but is shorter than the cadence, which means that all events younger than could not have been seen in the first observation. The minimum between these three quantities should be multiplied by the rate of events in order to compute the expected number of events and compute the detection probabilities.
