Summarizing
Long while ... things are quite crazy.
The flat we found "turn us down" ... no comments ...
After looking a bit more and a "remote" visit (thanks Miguel) we found a flat. Contract was signed a day before our trip to Brazil.
We came to Brazil ... I had to sign some papers (still have to sign some of them) and since we're moving to Munich we won't be able to come for Christmas, so we all came.
Some days in Sao Paulo, now some in Rio. Days have to be equally divided between the grandparents.
About science. New photometry for the clusters that was observed and "z-photted" by the "Bonn people" was matched to our ACS photometry. Now CAS is being ran and gotta check the GALFIT models.
Other clusters and DFs are ready in CAS and models and photometry. Just the "best fit" decision is to be done. Simulations will give this to train the method.
What else ... several small things, but mostly family issues.
We'll be back to Germany next week and then we move to Munich ... so rushy times.
Labels: hi-z morph, life
Too much non-science ...
So! Mostly since last post I've been looking for flats in Munich. Yep, is a dammed expensive city.
We've spent last week there visiting the flats and found something, one that is "livable and affordable". Now we "applied" to it and are waiting for the landlord to say "yes, we like you ..."
Besides that just some application material. Tomorrow I'll be back to science.
Labels: applications, life
Too much at the same time!
So too many things at the same time.
A lot of work to do, as usual, now I really need to finish some stuff for good!
We are moving to Munich. Yep! Not because of me. Fernanda got a post-doc position at the TUM. So we are going there, then I can try to get something for me there (4 institutes, there's gotta be something :-)) ).
That implies in looking for a flag. A good one for an affordable price ... yeah, in Munich ... is like searching for cool breeze in hell!! Munich is amazingly expensive! Anything is at least twice the price of Göttingen.
We have been calling several adds and escaped a dirty con!! Yep! Be aware, it's happening in Germany and at least in Switzerland. Amazing flat for a good price, contact by e-mail, you are "chosen" from "several" applicants. Keys will come by DHL in a service where you deposit the "bail" and receive the keys. If you keep the keys the bail is sent to the landlord. But then the transfer would be make by Western Union ... opaaaaa ... short call to DHL was enough to learn the word BETRUG (german word for fraud). Then some more directed "googling" and many more indications of it. Some people believed and why not ...
Next week we gotta go to Munich to visit some of the flats.
About science. Updating information. Latest CAS results and working on the simulations. Not much time. Calling flats takes too long for me because I have to prepare myself for what I want to say and to what I expect to hear. Bavarian accent makes things a bit worse, but I'm handling.
Also got involved in some proposal, but no PI-ing, no time this round.
Labels: hi-z morph, life
A lot to do out of science
So!
haven't been posting here due to lots of "off science" duties. The light at the end of the tunnel seems to be the end of it and not a train. More soon and with good news.
About work. Last week I finished my part of the new mask of our low luminosity ellipticals. Now it's back to Bodo.
Yesterday and today back to hi-z morphology. Trying to make BPZ work and reproduce Hendrik Hildebrandt's (Leiden) kind work on photometric redshifts. We have added NIR photometry to 2 clusters and refined the photometry of all the clusters, so z-phots should improve. Unfortunately there's still something missing since I can reproduce his results with the old photometry. The results of the new photometry compared with spectroscopic redshifts are not so bad but could improve ... deciding what to do.
Also managed to "hack" Asmus Boehm's code on CAS to make it possible to run remotely (no displays and other graphic stuff) to be able to run it on the 15200 simulated galaxies of my "characterization simulation". Then we can compare GALAPAGOS/MULTICOMP with CAS results for simulations also. Even though the CAS analysis suffers a bit since there are no star formation regions and irregularities on the simulated galaxies.
This project seems to never end, and indeed it never ends. More and more we see things we can improve and explore using the full capability of the high quality data ...
Basically that. Tomorrow back to analyzing the results of MULTICOMP on the simulated galaxies to define confidence levels.
Labels: hi-z morph, life, Low luminosity ellipticals
Some stuff
So, friday was application submission and some home problem solving.
Light at the end of the tunnel, hoping not to be a train ... more on that soon!
Working, last minute stuff, on the Low Luminosity Ellipticals project. I guess I never mentioned that before because it uses data from the hi-z clusters. But requires some refinement on it, so that is taking some time. The topic on the tunnel is also taking time.
Gotta finish the ellipticals tomorrow morning.
Besides that, some medical appointments before I change health insurance.
Labels: hi-z morph, life, Low luminosity ellipticals
Writing and rewriting
So, wednesday more on writing, thursday more on rewriting. Also today Matheus had a pediatrician appointment so that took most of the day, since he stayed home for most of it and I was the father "on duty" :-))
New application ready. Tomorrow submission.
Of course the weather didn't improve on wednesday. It did so for today, but no time for cycling ... maybe tomorrow afternoon for a little while.
Dinner at home with a good friend and collaborator of Fernanda, Elaine Del Bel (USP-Ribeirao). It's always great to talk to intelligent people, isn't it?
Labels: applications, life
Writing some stuff
So, writing stuff.
Updating some e-mails, asking for some information, some updated text for a new job application..
Reading a proceeding and a observational proposal to be submitted by collaborators.
Wrote most of my cycling magazine monthly text.
Basically that.
More to write for another application, some organization to do and if the weather improve as it's claimed, some cycling!! :-)
Labels: applications, life
