http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/ 2008-07-03T07:28:02+01:00 http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/ http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-07-02T18:38:36+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=personal&do=diff&1215049116 Academic Genealogy: DC Koo (1981) → IR King (1952) → H Shapley (1913) → HN Russell (1900) → CA Young (no Ph.D.) ... text/html 2008-03-14T00:58:38+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start&do=diff&1205481518 - What Am I Doing? - I have provided flux calibration code for DEEP2. - I have collated important AEGIS information. - I am collecting interesting AEGIS galaxies My Research Blog (Boring.) I am a graduate student at UCSC. My research interests ... text/html 2008-03-11T16:53:40+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ski_list&do=diff&1205279620 Ski Trip Check to SF, amount of $20.38 Backpack Snowshoes Sunscreen Sunglasses Nice clothes for Sat. Night (pants, shirt, shoes.) Packed sleeping bag. Blue pad Compass & Map Ski clothes: Bottoms: either long johns and rain pants Top:... text/html 2008-03-03T16:37:53+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=oii:ratio&do=diff&1204591073 The zcat (file ~ 22Mb) Documentation: My code performs a Metropolis-Hastings or (MCMC) measurement of [OII] strength, velocity dispersion, wavelength offset, and flux offset. The IDL function for oii is: return, offset+$ height1*exp(-(x... text/html 2008-03-03T14:31:38+01:00 anonymous@128.114.23.166 http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=deep2_flux&do=diff&1204583498 For DEEP2 conditions (same grating, blaze angle + filter) the total throughput of DEIMOS + Keck II is: Note that this value is a function of time (mirror coatings degrade, mirrors are polished, etc..) Please see http://www.ucolick.org/~kai/DEEP/D... text/html 2008-02-26T21:21:17+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=calendar&do=diff&1204089677 ... text/html 2008-02-25T12:53:42+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aegis:acs&do=diff&1203972822 Hi Nick, hi Sandy, While I am no expert, the HST ACS limiting AB magnitudes in the circulated text files and on the wiki (28.75 in V and 28.10 in I) look a little optimistic to me. I tried reproducing them using the ACS ETC but found that it is dif... text/html 2008-02-25T12:53:25+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aegis&do=diff&1203972805 As of November, 2006 Mission/Telescope Fields Instrument/Band PSF Filter λeff Limiting Magnitude Surface Density Area Exposure Time Contact Curve (typically 5σ) deg-2 deg2 ks CFH/Megacam DEEP2 Fields 2,3,4 i&rsqu... text/html 2008-02-25T12:52:05+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aegis:chftb&do=diff&1203972725 From Jeff Newmann: CFHT B is actually a fair bit deeper than shown (at least outside ptg. 14). It’s a little hard to figure out exactly how much deeper, as the counts start to turn over where we start to lose R- band detections. ... text/html 2007-12-21T01:10:44+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@194.219.96.162) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=aegis_oddballs&do=diff&1198228244 AEGIS Oddballs objno why? 12028325Engagement ring, “Jewel of the Universe” 13035123Enormous spiral? galaxy at high-z 13011657Strong Central Dust Lane 13040940Blue merging? Early Type 13040909AGN with Host Galaxy 1300... text/html 2007-11-10T23:27:22+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@169.233.113.100) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=writings&do=diff&1194766042 Random Notes MOPED Algorithm OII In red galaxies poster at massive galaxies over cosmic time. OII In red galaxies at JoelFest, summer 2005. AAS Poster 2006 Super Cap Battery (not my work.) McDonald Observatory Talk Nov 12th, 2007 ... text/html 2007-10-30T20:27:25+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=big_one&do=diff&1193801245 ... text/html 2007-10-22T20:55:54+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mems:start&do=diff&1193111754 Look at the figure below. As telescopes in crease in size from a 2.5m telescope (top) to a 30m telescope (third row), spectrographs of similar capability become unbelievably large. The right hand side shows a Sloan Spectrograph (2.5m Primary), DEIMO... text/html 2007-10-18T10:59:17+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@24.6.71.32) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mems:grating_eff&do=diff&1192730357 For the v2 blazed grating, we expect excellent diffraction efficiency: In Littrow mode, order is listed on right hand side of the chart. note: http://spiedl.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JMMMGF0000040000010197010000... text/html 2007-04-24T12:03:30+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=startup:start&do=diff&1177441410 Databases Suck ... text/html 2007-02-22T13:29:53+01:00 anonymous@128.32.92.133 http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=apjl_special_issue&do=diff&1172179793 [SOMEONE PLEASE PUT MINIMUM REQUIRED ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FROM SPITZER OR WHATEVER HERE]. See the survey summary paper, Davis et al. 2006, for full acknowledgements. The following would be appropriate for a paper using only MIPS data from Spitzer. It is... text/html 2007-02-20T20:39:56+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@63.249.113.177) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=allr:start&do=diff&1172032796 Recently, coating technology has advanced to the point that transmissive optical design for astronomical instrumentation is obsolete. In fact, transmissive design for consumer applications may become fully reflective. The world just needs someone to... text/html 2007-01-26T00:23:44+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@128.114.23.166) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=curious&do=diff&1169799824 Curiosities Large FOV telescopes like TMT. High reflectance, IR Coatings commercialized by omni-guide but fundamental research done at MIT MEMS: LIGA + FP Spectrographs Bragg Filters ... text/html 2006-11-19T22:26:08+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@67.180.67.212) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mcmc&do=diff&1164003968 Main Reference: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001ApJ...553...90V&db_key=AST&data_type=HTML&format=&high=442776bd7414930 2/16/06 update More data to add: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/A... text/html 2006-10-09T22:48:57+01:00 Nick Konidaris (npk@63.249.113.177) http://www.ucolick.org/~npk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=for_c&do=diff&1160459337 http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?answer=9231&topic=915 http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8380&ctx=sibling http://books.google.com/support/partner/bin/answer.py?answer=19799&topic=322 http://www.g...