search

wadawson / merging-cluster-dynamics-paper

1 stars 0 forks source link

Typo in Masses of Table 3? #11

Closed wadawson closed 11 years ago

wadawson commented 11 years ago

Referee comment:

The values of M_200_2 differ slightly in the left and right "panels" of Table 3. It is not clear why this should be the case (typo?).

Need to investigate.

wadawson commented 11 years ago

Response to Referee:

This is not actually typo, but rather an example of the correlation between all of the merger parameters. Without going into the complex details I hope a conceptual argument will suffice. When the temporal prior is applied to the TSC_0 PDF, this will affect the PDF of all parameters related to TSC_0 (which is actually every single parameter noted in the paper except T). TSC_0 is a direct function of the system mass and a function of other parameters which are in turn a function of the system mass. These complexities are why I went with a Monte Carlo method.