a horrible sinking feeling

From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 15:42:14 PST

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    One more place where I think I overestimated (maybe) errors due to
    colors: I haven't been putting in the correlation between the color and
    the peak magnitude. This can be important, esp. with the HST
    supernovae, where the color errors may have a significant contribution
    from the zeropoint. I don't know how much it will effect it, but it
    might, so I ought to put those correlated errors in.

    Worse, this is another correlation between the supernovae, but figuring
    out how to cleanly deal with this is going to be really rather
    complicated.... Ignoring the correlation between supernovae probably
    isn't a good idea, though, because esp. with the HST supernovae, these
    correlations might be significant.

    -Rob

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


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