Re: HST paper questions

From: Lifan Wang (lifan@panisse.lbl.gov)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 12:51:49 PST

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    > Folks--
    >
    > (I figure what's the point of having a big collaboration if we can't ask
    > these sorts of silly questions.)
    >
    > * Can somebody point me to the "latest and greatest" limits on Omega_M
    > from the cluster work? I recall reading in a N. Bachall paper
    > somewhere that they were now favoring lower values (0.2 rather than
    > 0.3), but don't remember where I read this. Which should be "the one"
    > to quote in the HST paper?
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        I think the reference is Bahcall et al. ApJ 541, 1 (2000)

    > * Same question, only geometry (flatness) results for the CMB
    >
        Again, I would put Jaffe et al. 2001 Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 3475 there.

    > * Is there any other basic cosmological result I will get flogged for
    > not mentioning?
    >
    > -Rob
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    > --
    > --Prof. Robert Knop
    > Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
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