From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 11:39:03 PST
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 11:11:24AM -0800, Alex Conley wrote:
> I was thinking about how you are using cmb vs. heliocentric redshifts,
> and I think you are doing it wrong in snminuit. You definitely want
> the K-corrections to be done heliocentrically, but the stretch
> fits should be done in the CMB frame.
No.
Time dilation is time dilation, whether it comes from cosmology or from
a doppler shift. So far as the fit goes, it doesn't *care* where in the
universe the SN is, it only case how much total time dilation there is.
-Rob
-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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