From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 11:07:57 PDT
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:16:36AM -0700, Greg Aldering wrote:
>
> >> p21 : Help me out here: at the start of section 4.1 you describe
> >> K-corrected rest-frame B-band peak magnitudes. But, aren't they also
> >> stretch-corrected? If not, why not?
> >
> >You mean in the Hubble diagram? They are not stretch corrected, no.
> >Reason: because that's the way I did it. (I.e. no good reason.) I
> >could do that and redo the Hubble diagrams. I would also then add that
> >to the text.
> >
> >I think there is value in showing the "plain" magnitudes, although not
> >enough to add another Hubble diagram (with and without stretch
> >corrections).
>
> I bet this will come as a surprise to most of us! We'll see what others
> think, but I would vote for stretch-correction of all SNe shown on
> Hubble diagrams.
Correction! I *have* stretch corrected the plotted points. Sorry about
that. I just looked at the code, and in fact it is in there.
I will adjust the descrption in the text and the figure caption to make
this clear.
-Rob
-- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
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