Hi Boud,
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Boud Roukema wrote: ...
Now, with a more "neutral" z distribution for the "randoms", the signal should in principle be stronger - if it is real.
Well, the resulting signal is spectacular! :) :) :) :)
We still have a lot of work to do (I have to get plot_cf working), but it seems clear that (0.3,0.7,-1.0) gives a bad fit, and that (0.3,0.7,w_Q) with
w_Q \approx -1.5
is likely to give a better fit and signal, which would greatly upset all the theorists!
Wow!
Well, after the initial excitement, it looks like it's going to be less trivial than I thought to get an analysis which is totally clear and as little dependent on "arbitrary" decisions as possible...
Gary, as far as your talks are concerned, my feeling right at the moment (after having spent Friday night and the whole of Saturday working on this :( ) is that it would be better *not* to show the new plots to your seminar audiences, as they are "hot-off-the-press" results which have not yet been carefully enough thought through and checked, and they would distract from the careful, detailed analysis/discussion in RMB02.
Thank you for working on this. I will stick to my old guns and mention that new more discriminating statistical analyses are in progress.
You can certainly say that we're continuing to work on this and that we got some exciting stuff last week. Anyone who seriously would like to contribute to the project is welcome to subscribe to the mailing list (info below) and to help develop the software package DE.
Will do.
Do let me know how things come along. Since the signal was weak in RMB02, you could also be bold and use all 10k quasars. Will query today (I am partly at the AAO today), about the next data release from 2dF-2QZ.
best regards and do ckorovo (does that work in Polish?)
Gary