mulling things over...

Dear Loyal readers,

All too often I have to apologise for lack of recent posts. This time is no exception.

The little bit of research news I do have is that with my recent work on Spitzer data, Alexander (Durham) and I have a very good chat about the connections between SMGs (a la Swinbank, Coppin and Geach - aka Athos, Porthos, and Aramis) and their connection to local ULIRGs - and consequently their BH fueling and growth rates. The link to quasars and BH growth phases is still v. much up for grabs and I would love to give you the punchline here but this is Dave's work and is due out shortly.

Also giving a shout out to a fellow quasi-collaborator, Angulo (2007) is shaping up v. nicely. Basically, this work takes the AMAZING Millenium Simulation, sprinkles in a little bit of the ol' semi-analytic model and basically tells you what error you're likely to get on a BAO survey, given certain things i.e. halo mass, (linear) object bias, the z-space distortions and so on. Again, watch this space!