The Top Ten at Ten
Observing causes you to do weird things.... There has been a decided lack of posts recently, due to clear skies, the sun of Sydney and the bright lights of Hong Kong but here to make up for it are a list of things we either didn't know, or only suspected just over a couple of weeks ago:
- The riz colour selection works (very) well at picking out redshift > 0.5 LRGs.
- So well in fact, that a mean redshift of nearly redshift = 0.8 was being obtained in some of our fields.
- The riz-selection also works annoyingly well at picking out faint M-stars.
- Shanks's idea of going to a z-band limit (19.5 < z < 20.2) seems to have been inspired.
- The COMBO-17 people basically got it right (on photo-z calculation at least).
- AAOmega works essentially "as it says on the tin".
- The ELG selection, of which I'll need to look into some more, may have the ability to select z~1 galaxies in reasonable (1-2 hour) exposures without the need for GALEX data.
- Thai chicken sandwiches bought from dodgey Mudgee cafes do not agree with me.
- Even with all his annoyances, Shanks just has this ability to really crack me up and go observing with him, Wake, Cannon (AAO), Sharp (AAO) and Stevenson (AAO), was a real treat.
- It is colder in the North-East of England now than in either Hong Kong or Australia and this saddens, annoys and even frustrates me.
So there we have it. Thesis chapters and papers galore!
Should get back into the grove of regular postings - which will be vital with the new competition out there!!
- The riz colour selection works (very) well at picking out redshift > 0.5 LRGs.
- So well in fact, that a mean redshift of nearly redshift = 0.8 was being obtained in some of our fields.
- The riz-selection also works annoyingly well at picking out faint M-stars.
- Shanks's idea of going to a z-band limit (19.5 < z < 20.2) seems to have been inspired.
- The COMBO-17 people basically got it right (on photo-z calculation at least).
- AAOmega works essentially "as it says on the tin".
- The ELG selection, of which I'll need to look into some more, may have the ability to select z~1 galaxies in reasonable (1-2 hour) exposures without the need for GALEX data.
- Thai chicken sandwiches bought from dodgey Mudgee cafes do not agree with me.
- Even with all his annoyances, Shanks just has this ability to really crack me up and go observing with him, Wake, Cannon (AAO), Sharp (AAO) and Stevenson (AAO), was a real treat.
- It is colder in the North-East of England now than in either Hong Kong or Australia and this saddens, annoys and even frustrates me.
So there we have it. Thesis chapters and papers galore!
Should get back into the grove of regular postings - which will be vital with the new competition out there!!
posted by NPR at 7:55 PM
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