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Code and papers for the Siena Galaxy Atlas (SGA-2020).
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missing factor of two in group-catalog code? #52

Open moustakas opened 3 years ago

moustakas commented 3 years ago

I think I'm missing a factor of 2 in this part of the group-catalog generating code-- https://github.com/moustakas/SGA/blob/main/bin/SGA-build-parent#L3744

This error didn't matter (at all?) with the initial SGA catalog because they Hyperleda diameters tend to be much smaller than the D(26) diameters we have in-hand now. What happens is that in a galaxy group with a large central galaxy and a smaller companion on the periphery missing this factor of 2 can exclude the satellite.