Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Improved Peak Measurements

Part of the day was spent helping Dave put the finishing touches on his NSF proposal.  I think it turned out pretty good.  The main focus of the proposal was on weak lensing shear peaks, clusters and filaments. Here's hoping that it gets accepted.

A large part of the day was improving my measurement of the shear peak centers' errors for DLSCL J0916.2+2951.

Another interesting note is that Sophie Maurogordato, whom I mentioned in a arXiv to the Rescue, is interested in applying the method that I developed to constrain the dynamics of cluster mergers to her merging cluster A2163.  It is a great feeling to have something you developed be useful to someone else.  This is actually the second time I will have applied my method to another cluster (the first was to a high redshift cluster pair that Brian Lemaux has been working on.

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