Re: Mobasher's photo-z's

From: Rachel A. Gibbons (ragibbons@lbl.gov)
Date: Sun May 23 2004 - 22:11:33 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.

        Yes, the photo-z distribution is broad with a lot of area in the >1.0
    wing. I doubt Bahram would say the redshift was firm. However, the
    mags+color mean z=1.2 is probably an upper limit on this one.

    > Let's see where we stand tomorrow morning.

        Goodnight.

    Rachel

    > 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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