From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 15:40:03 PDT
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:37:27AM -0700, Alex Kim wrote:
> >This bias moves almost exactly along the line
> >$\Omega_M+\Omega_\Lambda=1$, increasing uncertainty along the thin
> >axis of the error contour, and hence also in the deceleration
> >parameter. However, the extreme difference in dust properties
> >considered in the Monte Carlo contributes a shift in the cosmological
> >parameters that is less than 1 $\sigma$ of our quoted statistical
> >error bars.
Note that <1-stat-sigma is the size of *all* of the statistical errors
we're quoting... can you give me a number I can stick on this? Only if
it is "lots" less than the other statistical errors, or something (like
Malmquist) that is very challenging to estimate a number on, are we
leaving a number out.
We might finesse this by saying that these are the most extreme cases,
and thus for more likly cases the uncertainty is likely to be negligible.
-Rob
-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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