Saw the total lunar eclipse early Tuesday morning. Sweet.
Then attended Jesse Rogerson's public talk and Master's defense. He passed with specified revisions to the thesis (and numerous compliments on the talk). Discussed turning the thesis into a paper, and next steps for our mutual research.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Sub-Eddington
Friday: Paola Rodriguez-Hidalgo visited my group at York. Much discussion of quasars and Mg II absorbers ensues. Jesse Rogerson gives practice thesis talk.
Monday: met with my grad students, and with Alireza Rafiee to discuss response to referee report on the sub-Eddington boundary. Spent afternoon doing my share of revising the text and sent the resulting draft to Alireza.
Monday: met with my grad students, and with Alireza Rafiee to discuss response to referee report on the sub-Eddington boundary. Spent afternoon doing my share of revising the text and sent the resulting draft to Alireza.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Inhomogeneous
Backed up files to JungleDisk and to a new external HDD. Summarized a few papers on Shareflow, including the key Dexter & Agol paper on quasar accretion disks with inhomogeneous temperature distributions.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Back at York
Met with Ali Rafiee and Laura Chajet for brief research (and teaching) discussions; reviewed Jesse Rogerson MSc thesis presentation draft.
Also, just for fun, looked up eight unidentified quasar candidates from the Large Bright Quasar Survey in the SDSS: one spectroscopically confirmed star, three stars confirmed by nonzero proper motions, three BL Lac objects, and one probable transient that is now much fainter than it was when the LBQS candidates were selected.
Also, just for fun, looked up eight unidentified quasar candidates from the Large Bright Quasar Survey in the SDSS: one spectroscopically confirmed star, three stars confirmed by nonzero proper motions, three BL Lac objects, and one probable transient that is now much fainter than it was when the LBQS candidates were selected.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Back in Toronto
Back in Toronto. Have had short discussions with Jesse Rogerson about refining his Mg II equivalent width analysis and about his Master's thesis presentation. Short Skype meeting with Laura Chajet. Commented on newest revisions to draft PHL 1811 analog paper.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Short-timer
Last day at OSU. Wrote online summaries of some papers, transferred others over from Google Wave.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Two days
Tuesday: sort papers & write notes on some. Chat w/Brad Peterson. Spectral measurements on new HET spectra for PHL 1811 analog paper.
Wednesday: sort papers & write notes on some. Final revised FBQS J1408+3054 paper off to MNRAS and arXiv. Skype w/Laura - turns out the erroneous analytic solution for inhomogeneous covering hasn't affected any published results, as the integral in question has been evaluated numerically. Skype w/Jesse - turns out the problem of accounting for EW measurement upper limits and uncertainties is "ridiculously simple, like most riddles when you see the answer", to quote Gandalf.
Wednesday: sort papers & write notes on some. Final revised FBQS J1408+3054 paper off to MNRAS and arXiv. Skype w/Laura - turns out the erroneous analytic solution for inhomogeneous covering hasn't affected any published results, as the integral in question has been evaluated numerically. Skype w/Jesse - turns out the problem of accounting for EW measurement upper limits and uncertainties is "ridiculously simple, like most riddles when you see the answer", to quote Gandalf.
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