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
A complicated week ...
Since sunday I've been playing daddy and mommy, since Fernanda went to a conference. It's amazing how being alone takes time. At least we (me and Matheus) spent some good times together when he was riding his bike. That with the holiday on thursday (when Fernanda was already back) helped to a not really productive week, in any sense.
To finish a dead week my MacBook's batery's puffed, what is a clear sign that something went wrong. Not suppose to be a big issue, since my Apple Care is still running, just some wasted time to solve it. Well, turns out, not surprisingly, that bateries are not included on it, unless for deffects. Some foruns report the LAME EXCUSE of Apple saying that this is a sign of wear, it's normal when the batery get old. BULLSHIT!!! Never saw a batery puff when it gets old. But they would never acknowledge ANOTHER batery issue on MacBooks. So I had to buy a new one, since I can afford a new machine at the moment. That means I'll get a new and larger disc soon and extend this machine's use for a couple of years more.
Science!!! Some checks on the UCDs paper and some new writing one the statisical part of the mammary gland project.
Next weeks tends to be better (unless something else breaks he he he).
Labels: hcg_ucd, life, mammary_gland_paper
Some stuff finished
Mammary gland analysis, finished (so far).
New application for a position, finished, to be sent tomorrow.
Proposal that I'm in but couldn't contribute much to the text finished and submitted.
Labels: applications, mammary_gland_paper
Collecting posts
So, several days.
Gave up writing a new proposal, better advance some stuff to give more background for the next proposal. Of course, not before checking what I needed and I we wanted ...
Successfully modified the ISODENS code I've got from Hugo Capelato (DAS/INPE) to work on the Mac and expanding capabilities to "today's computers". Not, interpreting the results is a whole other story :-)
Mammary gland project almost ready. Gotta write my statistical conclusions.
Wednesday we went to Hofbräuhaus to have dinner with Elif Kutdemir (former Göttingen) that just finished her Ph.D. thesis in Gronningen. It was a nice evening.
Weekend was typically german. We had a really sunny week, that I couldn't enjoy due to too many things to do. Then, friday at 3:00 PM weather changed, windy and rainy ... as it was the whole weekend.
My parents arrived to visit for a month :-)
Labels: hcg_gcs, life, mammary_gland_paper
For several days!
Just noticed now that several days have passed without posting. Things are quite crazy around here.
So, summarizing including some stuff done during the weekend (which I shouldn't but despaired times call for despaired measures).
Mammary gland projects is going. Still to be done parts 4 and 5.
A lot of discussion about the UCDs paper, even though no feedback from other authors, just the usual ones.
Tweaked the star-galaxy classification to a misclassification ratio of 19%. That includes extended objects in the point-sources list and point-sources left out of the list. That was done in the R FORS image and checked at the ACS image. The ACS image is about a quarter of the FOV, so it's not useful to do the whole classification deal. How this has got to the point where there can be a small error in calibrations. So that's the days task for monday, along with other things.
Other things: prepare a proposal and a job application. All that for friday. Deadline is next week, but my parents will arrive on saturday, and you can imagine what that means :-)
Comment on the weather. This weekend was a typical german weather. Sun until friday, rain on the weekend and a sunny monday :-) At least I took Matheus to the Tagesmutter by bike, like old times. Feeling german again hehehehehehe
I'm also astonished by some stuff I've been reading lately. Can't comment for political reasons, but the only thing that can be said is "the worse bureaucracy is the one we carry inside of us ...".
Labels: hcg_gcs, hcg_ucd, life, mammary_gland_paper
Two days like one :-)
Monday was a very, but very short and slow day. Matheus decided to wake up at 4:30 and finally slept about the time we should be waking up ... so we slept a bit longer.
Sent the paper to the other co-authors, after some small modifications and then organized some info to be "repaired" when it comes back. Small stuff.
Today a failed anaerobic threshold test ... home trainer should have more resistance at the beginning. Again next time.
One more step in the Mammary Gland project. Now gotta write it and do 2 more.
Some playing with colors from SSP models.
Labels: hcg_gcs, hcg_ucd, life, mammary_gland_paper
A bit of all
So! Wrote some text describing the analysis so far of the Mammary Gland project, discussed some conclusions for the UCDs paper a we started the idea for the next proposal. Paper will be back today and distributed to all the authors after I fix a couple of references and table captions.
Installed a new version of SciSoft (for OSX) to be sure pyraf would work. Well, it does, but still the function TRAN from STSDAS.DRIZZLE doesn't. It maybe that it's the header of the WI4 image that is not the same as the FLT image. So I already requested the image from STSci's archive, but this may come only tomorrow.
In the mean while I can do something on the ground-based images. So, star-galaxy classification using my old FWHM x Mag method, as in the 2002 paper. On that, it needs some tweaking. On that.
Let's see tomorrow!
Labels: hcg_gcs, hcg_ucd, mammary_gland_paper
Geometric corrections ...
Yesterday more on the mammary gland project. One more step gone. Gotta stop and write what's up so far. 3 steps yet to go and getting more complicated and interesting.
Today GCSs in H90 to complement the UCD's study. Fighting with ACS multidrizzle corrections. Of course there's a pyraf task for that and of course there's something wrong with my pyraf.
The first question is why pyraf? IRAF has been working fine for more than 15 years!
The second question is why ONLY FOR pyraf?
Never managed to make pyraf works! You're told "install scisoft, it comes with it all", no it doesn't! There's always a problem!
Also, I want things on a terminal, so I can do things remotely! I hate windows and GUIs and stuff that doesn't work remotely!
They say Python is the future ... as long as you define which version you're programming to, seems 2.5 is not compatible with 2.6, or so. And as long as you can make it work, mine comes with a "closed package" installation, but still there's something wrong.
Probably gonna have to do things "the hard way", as always. I don't even know why do I bother ...
Labels: hcg_gcs, mammary_gland_paper
Solving small things, again
So! Solving problems like finally registering at the Brazilian consulate and transferring our voting "cards" to Munich. Then to IKEA to buy some stuff we need and never had the will to go as far as IKEA is ... today we did it.
More statistical analysis on the Mammary Gland project.
Labels: life, mammary_gland_paper
Something else
So! To rest my head I started to work on another project. Something on molecular biology :-)
Not Astrobiology, molecular biology, for real! Cancer research!!!
No, I'm not changing areas, not yet. My wife is analyzing a huge chunk of data and if there's something we learn during a PhD is astrophysics is STATISTICS!!! So I'm in charge of the statistical analysis of the data. It's good to deal with something different and it will be nice to be on a non-astronomical paper :-)
I'll finish that on the next couple of days, alongside another important project. An IGL+GCS analysis.
Labels: mammary_gland_paper
