Re: Riess' prior

From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 12:52:31 PST

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    On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:50:08PM -0800, Michael Wood-Vasey wrote:
    > On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:48:40PM -0600, Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:
    > > What next? Does he *move* E(B-V) to the new value based on the prior?
    > > (I.e., this prior is going to generate a probability distribution
    > > function whose peak is offset from the old center.) If so, then he's
    > > reddening *everything*, which is at odds with his list of AB=0 for most
    > > of his supernovae. How does he use it? What did he do?
    >
    > Is it too crazy an idea to ask him?

    *Somebody* in our collaboration already must know, since we were able to
    reproduce the methodology in the P99 paper.

    -Rob

    -- 
    --Prof. Robert Knop
      Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
      robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
    


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