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Make Bullet Cluster Redshift Corrections #1

Closed wadawson closed 11 years ago

wadawson commented 11 years ago

Background

This issue was actually identified after a comment by Marusa Bradac after rev0 of the paper was submitted to ApJ. Since Barrena et al. 2002 report the redshifts of the main and bullet subclusters in terms of velocity (km/s) I needed to convert this to actual redshift values. I applied the full relativistic conversion formalism, but Barrena et al. (2002) actually just used v = c*z and later when calculating the velocity difference of the two subclusters used (v2-v1)/(1+z). The end result being that I overestimated the observed relative line of sight velocity difference.

To Do

wadawson commented 11 years ago

Need to make sure that I used the fixed concentration version of the MCMAC code. Need to think of the best way to do this (e.g. rather than taking the untracked branch already on my computer perhaps I should create an official branch.