On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Gary Mamon wrote:
Brian Boyle (PI of 2dF quasar survey) came to my talk at Macquarie University. He seemed to like our analysis. His main comment was: "Have you tried repeating your correlation function analysis by replacing the scambled redshifts with a smoothed redshift distribution?" This is what I gathered you (Boud) have done these last few days (extrapolating from Boud's often cryptic messages). I answered that we are in the process of
That's more or less correct, except that we've used the full catalogue observational dN/dz rather than a smoothed distribution. Remember that we analyse individual "fields" and then average them, so this ought to be better than z-scrambling.
We should also test a smoothed dN/dz, I agree, although the interpretation will be tricky because of the z selection effects...
doing just that, and our *** preliminary *** result is that the 125 h-1 Mpc feature comes out strongly in the 1st z-bin, but that we did not have yet any conclusion on Omega,Lambda.
This is a correct statement.
Hopefully by the end of the week we'll be able to say some less "cryptic" ;) statements and each of us will be able to compile DE-V0.05 (or DE-V0.06) and check the results...
Czesc Boud