Astronomy and Coffee

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.