Re: host galaxy phot-z (fwd)

From: Rachel Gibbons (rachel.a.gibbons@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 20 2004 - 10:31:26 PST

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    Hi Tomas,

        About the Dolphy (acs04c-014) NICMOS measurements for the NE knot
    being 2 mags off... Yes, they are, I screwed up. Here are the new
    numbers, which have also been transferred to the Wiki page. This should
    help a great deal sorting this one out. I sadly hadn't gain-corrected,
    which, for the NICMOS data, means 1.83 mags.

    |band |e-/s |corrected mags|
    |F110W|0.2720(0.0729)|26.154(0.291) |
    |F160W|0.1456(0.0394)|26.032(0.294) |

        The numbers for Mingus (acs04-076) are correct.

    Rachel

    On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 02:05:01PM +0100, Ariel Goobar wrote:
    >
    > >From Tomas...
    > --
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    > Ariel Goobar (www.physto.se/~ariel)
    > Department of Physics, Stockholm University
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    > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    > Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:47:22 +0100
    > From: Tomas Dahlen <dahlen@physto.se>
    > To: Ariel Goobar <ariel@physto.se>
    > Subject: host galaxy phot-z
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > here are some results on the phot-zs for the host galaxies to Mingus,
    > Dolphy & Alice C.
    > I also attach three plots with the probability distributions for each host.
    >
    > *****Mingus*********
    > SE knot: z=1.46
    > NW knot: z=1.58
    > SW knot: z=1.65
    > all, 0.75 arcsec aperture: z=1.59
    > all, 1.05 arcsec aperture: z=1.62
    >
    > I guess that the 1.05 arcsec should be the best. For the knots, there
    > are probably
    > systematic errors since these magnitudes are not corrected for the small
    > aperture
    > size used (0.18 arcsec, different filters shuold have different
    > corrections, affecting the
    > phot-z measurements).
    >
    > *****Dolphy*********
    > 1) NE knot, 0.30 arcsec aperture: z=1.75
    > 2) SW knot, 0.30 arcsec aperture: z=2.00
    > 3) all, 0.78 arcsec aperture: z=1.66
    >
    > 1) NE knot has NICMOS photometry (which the other don't) . This does,
    > however, not fit any template well.
    > It seems that the NICMOS photometry is 1-2 magnitudes too faint. Maybe
    > an aperture effect? Don't trust this
    > phot-z (or the plotted probability distribution)!
    > 2) Again, small aperture may bias result.
    > 3) I would trust this the most, despite the lack of NIR.
    >
    > *****ALICE COLTRANE*********
    > phot-z: 0.46
    >
    > This host only has photometry in three bands (VIz), which makes the
    > phot-z determination difficult, resulting in a broad probability
    > distribution.
    > Besides the best fit at z=0.46, there is also a second peak in the
    > probability
    > distribution at =0.8, which is almost as strong as the lower z peak.
    >
    >
    > /Tomas



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