Flying to Brazil
So, during this week most of the time was spent on planing the trip to Brazil (even though is a "going to my home land" kind of trip, it involves some planing :-) ).
Finished to review the models for the velocity fields work and couldn't make de CAS code work. Asmus Boehm will need to give some extra help on that.
Flying to the IAU-GA meeting ... had to "sleep" at the airport since the first train in the morning from Göttingen to Hannover is not early enough for a 6:30 flight. Then a day flight, kind of boring (as I was commenting to my wife) since there was no baby playing with the personal screen remote or trying to rip the flight magazine or walking me through the hole plane! :-)))) I miss them already.
Already in Rio. I'm writing that on sunday night, even though I'll "date" it as friday night, for organizational reasons.
Tried to get my material in the early-pick-up. My father-in-law drove me there twice and twice they had run out of material ... I just hope this is not an "indication" on how the meeting is going to be ... let's think positive because up to now they have been quite good.
Let's see what's good for tomorrow :-)
Labels: hi-z morph, IAU-GA
Less than half a day
Almost the whole day taking care of Matheus ... some model checking, not done yet.
It's way funnier to take care of him :-))
Labels: hi-z morph, life
Half a day
Half a day working, half a day babysitting. Matheus babysitter is sick so he'll stay home part of the week.
Fernanda took care of him in the morning and I prepared my talk to Rio. Afternoon she went to work and we went to check some car parts for "grandpa" :-))
Week at ESO (summary)
So, there wasn't much time for posting last week. A mix of a lot of work with spending time with friends. Summarizing in monday morning.
Claudia Mendes de Oliveira, my former PhD supervisor, came on wednesday. We arranged what we needed for the talks at the IAU-GA in Rio and some other minor stuff. We had a productive meeting with Bodo and Michael Hilker about the preliminary results for the UCDs in HCGs. That was great.
In the evening a nice dinner at Claudio Melo's. We studied together our whole life (high school, college and master) and his wife is a friend of mine since we are 5 years old. It was a great evening with a lot of chatting :-))
More work on the data, lots of small problems to solve, catalogues to arrange, codes to make it work ...
Evening at Bodo's with Thomas Kronberger and his girlfriend. Also a lot of chatting.
We have some red sequence discrepancies within the data and when comparing to models, I could not meet with Massa Tanaka to discuss about it.
I'm trying to make Asmus' code for CAS work, it's a MIDAS code and I'm not exactly a MIDAS user. Got to the first steps but still no result from the code. I'm missing something and Asmus is on vacation ... I'll try more latter.
Also rechecking objects selected by Elif. Up to now most of them keep the way I selected. Some could use some improvement.
Labels: hcg_ucd, hi-z morph, IGL, life
More at ESO
More discussion about the data we have, some technical stuff ...
Claudia Mendes de Oliveira will come tomorrow (wednesday).
At the end of the day Biergarten with Bodo, Jörg Dietrich and Massa Tanaka. Some fun, we deserve it.
Labels: hi-z morph, life
Week at ESO
First day, as usual. Train, some work during the trip, seeing good friends and discussing the simulations with Bodo. Tomorrow more discussion on this project.
A week searching
Basically the whole week arranging the NIR photometry, trying to figure out how to make the recipes for photometric redshifts work and figuring out details in the simulation results.
Next week I'll be in Garching, working with Bodo and with Claudia Mendes de Oliveira.
Labels: hi-z morph
Finding systematics
Trying to find systematic errors on the simulation. Some weird behavior of GALFIT was found ...
Labels: hi-z morph
Good results
So! The first results of the simulation are good. Now I'll try to extract something more from it.
Also half of the NIR photometry is done, now include it in the catalogue, do the other half and include this on the phot-z's
Dentist treatment is over! eeeeee
Labels: hi-z morph, life
Simulation done, NIR photometry almost
So, simulation (re-furbished version) is over (about 90 hours to run in 4 processors, so 360 hours of simulation) and will be analyzed tomorrow.
NIR photometry almost there for one cluster, than there's a second one. It's also boring, matching objects is not so straight forward ...
Tomorrow check up on the dentist, to know all that was done is ok and hopefully it's all over. Also gotta check some car rental for a trip end of august.
Labels: hi-z morph, life
It goes
Refurbished simulation running, should be ready by tomorrow, thanks to the quick computers :-)
Some data digging on my catalogues for the VF project.
Last catalogues is ready. Now I should try to include some NIR photometry to improve spectral fitting.
Tomorrow dentist ... should be the last appointment!
Labels: hi-z morph, life
Refurbished ...
2:00 AM refurbished simulation running. The goal is to have it all on sunday, again ...
I'll describe the refurbishing latter.
Labels: hi-z morph
Clearing the mind
So, yesterday and today, to clear a bit the mind and do a proper analysis of the simulation and take other project forward I was organizing the photometry of our UCD candidates!
That will be a nice result!!!
Also trying to understand the residua I'm getting on the GALFIT analysis of the simulated galaxies. Is it right? Are the simulated galaxies wrong? Is GALFIT getting crazy?
Labels: hcg_ucd, hi-z morph
