Back!?
Two months with no posting and three months without a real post.
Well, as said in the last post a huge crisis was on the way and it hit us like a hurricane. It's a crisis at home, but nothing to do with family. Family is great.
Long story short. My wife came back to work after two lumbar disk hernia surgeries and took little time to find out the kind of ASSHOLE (sorry for the word, but is the sweetest that comes to mind) he is. After some professional mistreat she decided to quit, putting our life in Munich in problems. We managed a provisional solution.
That solution also goes through looking to the world outside of the research "bubble" ...
Besides that, I also commented here, a couple of times, that the childcare structure in Munich is extremely deficient. That forces parents to basically build their own kindergartens. The state funds most of it but has no work (and expenses) administrating it.
Our, the
drachenei, started on august. This had a lot of work associated. From end of june to mid august literally building the place, still every weekend some stuff to do. From that on we all have tasks to perform. Mine, of course is IT and part of the Facility Management group.
The whole month of august was the adaptation of the kids there. That represented part-time care, with increasing time and in good part staying at the place during a couple of hours. Adaptation went well. Now the second phase started. Making it work properly with all the problems of a starting operation.
It took a lot of time.
Together with that, a lot of time spent with application material outside of the academy and difficult times to put my mind on work.
Not all lost. The GCS project is flowing, tends to accelerate now. A nice radio sources project has effective started and we observed good data on PNes in compact groups. Data to be reduced.
The good news are that the UCDs paper was accepted TODAY. So soon is astro-ph (probably friday).
In summary we have detected, for the first time, UCDs in two Hickson Compact Groups (HCG) - HCG 22 and HCG 90. The detected UCDs indicate two different formation channels and now NEW objects. Old objects with possible mid-age ones.
Cool paper :-)
Labels: hcg_gcs, hcg_pn, hcg_ucd, life
Busy day!
So, day in Garching. A lot of discussion over coffee at ESO with Iskren (AIfA), Bodo and Michael (ESO) about the UCDs paper. A lot of discussion generated a lot testing and checking for me and the other authors. Let's try to get things ready as soon as possible.
Also a lunch meeting with Magda, Giulia, Steffi, Bodo (ESO) and Ortwin (MPE) about the observation details of next run in august. Nice stuff decided like who goes, strategy and backup plan. Some stuff still to be looked at.
The visit was so rushy that I basically arrived went from one meeting to the other and got back to Munich to pick up Matheus at the Tagesmutter.
Now implementing all that ...
Labels: hcg_pn, hcg_ucd
Now it goes!
Ups and downs weeks. Time spent in personal things like solving problems, going to the doctor to try to find out why Fernanda still has pain after two hernia surgeries (they may know why now ...) and on good things also like recording our cycling podcast (Radiocorsa) on a raw/live way to discuss the first long week of the Giro d'Italia. That was fun. Also some good time spent taking Matheus around with his bike. Now I just need to find a time slot (and a weather slot) to cycle myself.
Finished the text for the Mammary Gland paper. Looking for the GCS center on H90. Not trivial task, but today there was some light on the topic. Lets see how it goes. Also finally updating the UCDs paper. Tomorrow I'm meeting with Iskren (AIfA) who's visiting ESO Bodo and Michael to discuss some topics on that. Also meeting Magda Arnaboldi (ESO) and Ortwin Gerhard (MPE) to talk about our coming observations of PNes.
Labels: hcg_gcs, hcg_pn, hcg_ucd, life, mammary_gland_paper
One more week
So! One more week!
Matheus is adapted to the Tagesmutter. Fernanda is already working. And I'm trying to get back to a work routine after a long set of non-science related tasks like looking for flats, some traveling, removal, organizing ...
Put together a couple of IDL routines, specially one for
Pearson Correlation Coefficient to be used in a paper we're working on. With it I started to reformulate my personal webpage and make the routines public. "
click here" :-))
Also finally managed to read the referee comments from Elif's paper. Long but good list of suggestions.
Also my back pain didn't improved, so now the doctor put me (actually us, Fernanda has a stronger problem also in the back) in physiotherapy ... let's see. No one has ever heard of
RPG (Global Postural Re-education, not Role-Playing-Game) here in Germany. Basically is a physiotherapeutic technique that works your whole body as one, not just your pain in the back or in the leg.
Good new, we got time at ESO to observe the PNe's!
Labels: hcg_pn, hi-z morph, life
Late summary of the week
The week was basically finishing the proposal for PNs in HCGs, preparing a job application, KG project coding (almost ready) and some high-z data management ... , no details now :-)
Labels: applications, hcg_pn, hi-z morph, kg
Writing ...
Friday was the Social Activity Day of the "science directorate" at ESO. Too bad not many joined, but the 21 of us had a lot of fun visiting the salt mine at
Berchtesgaden. 2.5 hours by train, it's close to Salzburg a nice tour thru the mines and then 2.5 hours back. Good to get to know a bit better people that work close to you!
For it was quite tiresome because after all that I had still 4 hours of train to Goettingen :-)
Today. Morning solving some problems on the town and afternoon some work on the proposal we'll submit on wednesday, some preparation for a job application and some work on the KG project ... more going on tomorrow!
Labels: applications, hcg_pn, kg, life
Finally finished
So, OBs for Lick stars discussed, updated, checked in and this phase 2 is finished!
Discussion on the proposal of PNs in HCGs and text update and sending it back to CoI's.
More catalogue organizing and some conceptual work on the KG project.
Tomorrow wake up very early and go to our Social Activity Day! This is gonna be fun!
Labels: eso_preimaging, hcg_pn, hcg_ucd, hi-z morph
A little bit of this, a little bit of that ...
During the weekend I finished the masks. The OBs are not ready yet, there are some open issues that will be discussed tomorrow (there was not time today).
Today I got a train one hour earlier to get in Garching on time for the Faculty meeting (at 11:00 AM). It was OK. Nothing major, but is good to be there and be up to date. Just that I had to wake up at 4:30 AM ... :-)
Then more OBs preparations for the masks. Some proposal discussion (next proposal, PNs in HCG, this is gonna be very cool). Then some more catalogues organization and update (as it was also done on the train). Then some more coding on the KG project. It's advancing!!! Now sleep that I'm broken ...
Labels: eso_preimaging, hcg_pn, hi-z morph, kg
The mask is back ... haunting me
So! News of the end of the day, I need to change the alignment stars of the Gemini mask, what means rethinking the whole setup ... it's pulling my feet during the night!
The new version of the last cluster is running, after PSF construction.
The rerun of the failed models is still going.
Organizing the tables to the joint analysis with the velocity fields. Matching objects, checking goodness of fits ...
Studying to my theoretical test for the drivers license on monday, all set, now I need to finish studying. This is happening for a while already, but now is the last rush ...
A very nice lunch with Magda Arnaboldi (ESO) and Ortwin Gerhard (MPE) and a discussion on how can we join our techniques. A proposal is being drafted already for next period.
Basically that, a busy day that ended with nice weather and a good bike ride to take the rust away.
Labels: gemini_preimaging, hcg_pn, hi-z morph, life
