From: Gabriele Garavini (garavini@in2p3.fr)
Date: Thu Nov 18 2004 - 00:36:12 PST
As I remember Gaston had enough experience in measuring the data of the
low-z SNe that he could identify the continuum "points" by eye even in
unsmoothed spectra. Though, I might remember wrong. I hope Gaston would
reply if I do remember wrong.
Cheers
Gabriele
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Smith, Eric Adam wrote:
> Quoting Gabriele Garavini <garavini@in2p3.fr>:
>
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > I'm sure you get systematics if you bin for doing the measurements of EW
> > (though I'm not sure about how big they might be),
> > and this is found also by Isobels student that is working on the Gimini
> > data. However, Gaston (who did the measurements) I believe did not bin
> > the data.
>
> I can understand why Gaston would not bin the low-z data, but I don't see how
> you could measure the high-z spectra without binning or smoothing of some sort.
> How are you determining the endpoints of the line?
>
> Eric A. Smith
> Vanderbilt University
>
>
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