From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 04:58:20 PST
----- Forwarded message from "Robert A. Knop Jr." <robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu> -----
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:10:56 -0600
From: "Robert A. Knop Jr." <robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu>
To: scpexec@lbl.gov, Tony Spadafora <ALSpadafora@lbl.gov>,
Saul Perlmutter <saul@lbl.gov>, dahowell@lbl.gov,
Alex Conley <aconley@panisse.lbl.gov>,
Michael Wood-Vasey <wmwood-vasey@lbl.gov>, lifan@panisse.lbl.gov,
bclee@lbl.gov, agkim@lbl.gov
Subject: New HST draft
Oof. It's there. I've put PS and PDF files on my HST update data page
at:
http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop/scp/hst/
Note that there's an awful lot else on that page which tries to address
some of the questions asked before, and it represents several extremely
long days (together with this draft)....
Below are some notes of changes and issues on this draft that I wrote
down as I was doing it. It's not complete, but it may give you some
idea what's up.
Hear y'all tomorrow. Or today, really.
-Rob
In addition to lots of diddily stuff:
* Rewrote abstract
* HOpefully a few more details on HST fitting procedure and those
parameters
* Rewrote the BS justifying my 0-offset fit. Nobodoy's going to like
it, I predict.
* Soften color language slightly, make the non-E(B-V) fits the primary
constraints.
* Andy or somebody: check my statement about Ia confirmation status in
section "WFPC2 Photometry"
* New Hubble Diagram
* Subsets section
* Lots and Lots of refitting (see web page), and text rewritten to go
with it.
* Fig 8 is useful, but I need to find a completely different way to plot
it. Comparing fig7 and fig 8 without thinking makes it seem that
adding the high-z data helps a LOT. Of course, the dashed contours
mean completely different things in each case, and in reality adding
the high-z data means almost NOTHING. But a quick by-eye comparison
might lead somebody to that conclusion, and we want to avoid that.
(Not only is it wrong, it hurts us. Call it enlightened
self-interest.)
* No systematics section, still. That needs to get written based on a
combination of the stuff I've put on my HST Data page and which other
people are working on.
-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu----- End forwarded message -----
-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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