Re: new version of HST proposal posted

From: Kyle S Dawson (KDawson@lbl.gov)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2007 - 08:19:16 PST

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    It's a straight measurement, so you see a decline in ngal at high z, both because the galaxies are less evolved and
    because we are quickly losing z' flux. The number count I did is EXTREMELY preliminary, I wouldn't ever trust it for
    anything but demonstraation purposes.

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Anthony Gonzalez <anthony@astro.ufl.edu>
    Date: Friday, January 26, 2007 6:48 am
    Subject: Re: new version of HST proposal posted
    To: Henk Hoekstra <hoekstra@uvic.ca>
    Cc: Marc Postman <marc.postman@gmail.com>, HSTclusterSN@lbl.gov, Tony Spadafora <ALSpadafora@lbl.gov>

    >
    > > By the way, n_gal is the number of early type galaxies in the ACS
    > > field (Kyle can correct me, as he measured it). I guess we need
    > > to define this in the figure caption.
    >
    > Is a correction applied to ngal for how far down the luminosity
    > functionthe data probe at different redshifts, or is this a
    > straight measurement
    > from the ACS data?
    >



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