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
Getting back to normal!
So, today, comparing the implementation of the BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) and the Akaike test. Of course the bad results the preliminary analysis gave were due to a small bug on the code ... now I'm to decide which one fits better my needs and, more important, to decide how to decide that!! Which would be the good tests for that, that can also characterize classification errors.
Also updating CV and texts for applications.
Labels: applications, hi-z morph
Yet another summary ...
So! Catching up is difficult, takes time, so no time for posting :-)))
Now a little summary.
First, unfortunately Fernanda hasn't got the offer in Leeds. She's been there for the interview, they took some extra time to reply, but at the end not for her, so we're not going to Leeds ... the search continues.
Analyzing some intracluster light together with Ignacio Toledo and Jorge Melnick from ESO using OV_WAV. Was a surprise when Jorge said in his talk at Rio he was using the OV_WAV for ICL and it's good that I can give them some help on what's not working fine.
Gotta prepare a webpage for OV_WAV with instructions.
Refereeing a nice paper.
Reading a draft of a proceeding.
Didn't have time to really read Elif's paper. She submitted it anyway, I'll insert comments on the "referee bounce".
In Rio, talking to my good friends Roberto Cid Fernandes (UFSC) and Marcelo Byrro Ribeiro (IF/UFRJ) I collected some suggestions for my "goodness of the fit" indicator. Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and the Akaike Information Criterion. Implemented the BIC, but it's too punitive for free parameters, in a first analysis. Mostly it prefers the simpler model, while Chi^2 mostly prefers the more complex model (even the reduced one).
I'm checking the simulated objects now and gonna implement the Akaike test, which is less punitive and see what comes out.
Some object selection on UCDs in HCGs.
Also several medical check ups, just in case! And trying to bike a bit, to get back in shape.
Two applications due this week ...
Labels: hcg_ucd, hi-z morph, life, refereeing
Back in Germany (again)!
So! Catching up after vacations in France and Spain! Back to work! More tomorrow!
Labels: life
