Re: further thougths on CMB vs. Helio redshifts

From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 16 2003 - 09:34:26 PDT

  • Next message: Robert A. Knop Jr.: "Re: further thougths on CMB vs. Helio redshifts"

    On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:31:06AM -0700, Michael Wood-Vasey wrote:
    > Using CMB-based redshifts for everything is fine _if_ you transform
    > your observations from our frame to the CMB frame. This means the
    > time, wavelength (including bandwidth), and energy of our observations
    > all have to be corrected if you want to do this completly in the CMB
    > frame.

    Too late to do all that. Plus, I'd want to think a bit more, because
    trying to put these sorts of corrections into your K-corrections is
    the sort of thing that's very easy to do slightly wrong....

    -Rob

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


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