Re: Mobasher's photo-z's

From: Saul Perlmutter (saul@lbl.gov)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 21:30:29 PDT

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    Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about those candidates with less
    than 20% increase. In Priority 1 there is only -002 worth rechecking.
    And I guess we could at least revisit the higher percent increase
    Priority 0's to be sure they are junk (perhaps by seeing if they also
    showed up in the I band image?)

    Ariel's scatter plot of expected discovery magnitudes does make -011
    quite consistent with anything below reshift 1.2, while his color
    scatter plot suggests that it is consistent with something between
    redshift 1.05 and 1.2. I wonder how much to believe the photo-z on
    this.

    Let's see where we stand tomorrow morning.

    Robert A. Knop Jr. wrote:

    >On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 08:25:15PM -0700, Saul Perlmutter wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Hmm... As we suspected from the magnitudes, this looks like a rather
    >>low-redshift bunch! I'm disappointed that -011 didn't turn out to be
    >>higher redshift (at least z ~ 1.2), although I guess the photo-z is
    >>uncertain enough that it's just possible that it is.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Supernova colors and magnitudes are much more consistent with z=1.2 for
    >acs04b-011 than they are for anything at z=0.9. (Even a Ia at -8 days
    >rest frame at z=0.9, which would have the right z, would be bluer than
    >that.)
    >
    >
    >
    >>And it looks like we only have two more tiles left to search. If this
    >>is all we have, then perhaps we should at least request the photo-z's
    >>for a couple of the unlikely ones, like -002, just for completeness.
    >>That way, if we by any chance resuscitate them, we won't have to ask
    >>Bahram for photo-z's in a big rush. Any other examples in this
    >>category? (No rush, since we probably want to wait for the last few
    >>tiles to be completed first, in any case.)
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Rachel and I are in the middle of cleaning up a couple of those that had
    >I-band problems. If we can do this tomorrow morning (I predict that
    >Mobasher isn't going to do stuff over night anyway), we will have a
    >better sense of what is what.
    >
    >Most everything down in the priority=1 list has a really low %INC, and
    >isn't something we're going to want to follow. We might do better by
    >asking for more detailed work on some of the prio 3's?
    >
    >-Rob
    >
    >
    >



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