From: Alex Kim (agkim@lbl.gov)
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 18:15:34 PDT
Serena,
The transformation between optical and NIR bands is already inside the
K-correction of Kim et al. so doesn't have to be explicitly singled out
in your paper.
Alex
On Aug 24, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Chris Lidman wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Perhaps Alex can comment on this point.
>
> This term is not explicitly mentioned in Alex's paper although Alex
> does
> state under which conditions his equation is valid.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
>
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:39, Serena Nobili wrote:
>> Hello Saul (cc Chris),
>>
>> thanks for your comments. I have one small concern about the sentence
>> (p.10):
>>
>> "However, an extra term has been added to the usual formula,
>> in order to take into account the appropriate transformation between
>> IR and optical photometric systems. The $K$-correction between filter
>> $x$ and $y$ is given by $K'_{xy} = K_{xy} - (x-y),$ where $(x-y)$ is
>> the color of Vega and $K_{xy}$ as defined in Kim et al (1996)."
>>
>> I added this upon request by Chris, but as I understand from you,
>> this was
>> already in the original paper by Alex (I am sorry for not having
>> checked
>> this carefully). I would like to make sure you both agree on this
>> point before I delete the sentence from the paper.
>>
>> On a different issue, I wrote to Brian and asked about how to phrase
>> the
>> private communication. I am changing the paper accordingly ( I will
>> forward the email to you):
>>
>> "We found differences with the results published in \citet{tonry},
>> due to
>> the use of an incorrect filter in those calculations, however, the
>> $K$-corrections calculated as part of the MLCS Distance fits to this
>> object were done with the correct filter (Brian Schmidt, private
>> communication)."
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Serena
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Saul Perlmutter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Serena (and SCP exec),
>>> I think the paper is generally looking very good -- nice work!
>>> I'm
>>> attaching a PDF file with comments on it. They're mostly simple
>>> things
>>> to edit, but there are a couple of rather important points to be
>>> addressed. Even these should be pretty quick to take care of --
>>> let me
>>> know if you need help with any of them.
>>>
>>> I hope you had a nice summer break, and that Paris isn't too hot
>>> this end-of-August. Regards, --Saul
>>>
>>>
>>>
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