Hallelujah.
Today:
I got the max likelihood code working with a fix to the KPNO input file. It's running at a snail's pace, though. The amoeba results look legit at first glance so I hope I'm not wasting time in letting it run.
Allframe finished last night, but I'm just noticing that all of my sharp values are 0.0. This is going to be a big problem when I go to make chi and sharp cuts to the CMD to pick out the stars. I'm looking into this and trying to run Allframe again to see if there's not an easy fix. I wasn't entirely sure what to change to fix this problem since it's so random, but I increased the Allframe iterations and I'll just see if my results are similar to what I got before.
In the meantime my post-Allframe analysis is so close and yet so far...I'm currently at a standstill with running DAOmaster on my Allframe output. For some reason it just won't read the input file. I tried the files that Ricardo sent from his run of Wil1 data and that won't run either. So I sent some of my files back to him to see if they'll run on his machine. I'm not sure if I'll be happy or not if they run there, but it'll be better than nothing. I compared my files to his and other than the sharp thing I don't see a difference. And I don't think the bad value would contribute to a read error. I'm going to take a fresh look at it a little later when I haven't been staring at the same files all day.
Tomorrow:
With any luck my max likelihood run will be done so I'll have some good Wil1 params by the end of the day.
With a huge amount of luck it won't take me another 2 weeks to figure out what's wrong with the Allframe analysis this time. Ricardo got good sharp values on the same data so I'm not sure I want to know what the problem is...but one way or another it would be awesome to have a CMD leading into the weekend. If only the allframe results would cooperate. The rest is really pretty straightforward.
In the meantime of other things running I'm going to get started on the absolute magnitude calculation. With everything else happening I doubt this will get done by the end of tomorrow. But I'll settle for by the end of Monday.
Results are finally close to coming together. I just hope it happens sooner rather than later so I can put this talk together.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Allframe works!
Today:
Got allframe working! Finally.
Compared a density plot I made of my star list with one made from the original catalog. I'm inclined to say that the one I made with the original catalog matches figure Beth sent that she made back using that catalog. But there are still significant morphological differences between my distribution from the new catalog and these other figures. This concerns me.
I also have an idea about what could be causing ridiculousness in my input file...I think it's most likely something wrong with the input file. I don't have enough time to implement some changes at the moment but I'm going to come back to this tonight and try a revised input file.
Tomorrow:
1. I want to close the loop on this stellar density plot. Hopefully I'll have Allframe results to work with.
2. Allframe will be done running, so I'll need to figure out how to put together my master list and then create a CMD.
3. Go back to working on the max likelihood stuff. I got caught up with Allframe so I'm still having many of the same issues as before. I'm wondering if I didn't quite implement Dave's corrections correctly. Something is wrong and it's probably going to take a careful eye to catch it. It would be great if I could have it running by Friday so I can be sure to have some solid results to put into my talk.
Got allframe working! Finally.
Compared a density plot I made of my star list with one made from the original catalog. I'm inclined to say that the one I made with the original catalog matches figure Beth sent that she made back using that catalog. But there are still significant morphological differences between my distribution from the new catalog and these other figures. This concerns me.
I also have an idea about what could be causing ridiculousness in my input file...I think it's most likely something wrong with the input file. I don't have enough time to implement some changes at the moment but I'm going to come back to this tonight and try a revised input file.
Tomorrow:
1. I want to close the loop on this stellar density plot. Hopefully I'll have Allframe results to work with.
2. Allframe will be done running, so I'll need to figure out how to put together my master list and then create a CMD.
3. Go back to working on the max likelihood stuff. I got caught up with Allframe so I'm still having many of the same issues as before. I'm wondering if I didn't quite implement Dave's corrections correctly. Something is wrong and it's probably going to take a careful eye to catch it. It would be great if I could have it running by Friday so I can be sure to have some solid results to put into my talk.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Today:
I Double checked the chi and sharp cuts I made:
I ended up using:
--sharp: -0.5 to 0.5
--chi: 0.8 to 1.5
This is more or less a generous cut to clean things up a bit. More could be done to get a more stringent cut. I also remade the CMD with these cuts and without getting close to Wil1. It looks pretty good. I noticed that the isochrone wasn't doing a good job of describing the data and realized that I must have used the wrong distance to Wil1 when I calculated the distance modulus. But that's fixed and all is well. I used the same code Anna and I wrote for Segue to match stars to within 1 sigma of the M92 isochrone. I also made a Hess Diagram which I've been playing with, but also looks really good.
I also set out to tweak the contour plot of stellar density:
Like I just mentioned, I did a better job of selecting the stars for the CMD and used only the stars that matched the chi/sharp and isochrone cuts but didn't do any ra/dec cuts so that I would have the whole field to work with. I messed with Beth's annulus idea only to realize that I was already scaling the smoothed density plot. But I wasn't ignoring the central region (where Wil1 is). So I made a mask that cut out the central square before I scaled things. It was a crude way of doing it and could be changed, but I think it'll do for now. My contours definitely turned out looking a lot better so I think I'm going to tweak the smoothing and binning tonight to see if I can't get it looking really good by tomorrow.
So, in all, I now have newly updated figures from KPNO data including: hess diagram, CMD with isochrone fit, chi and sharp cuts, stellar density plot.
Tomorrow:
Max likelihood for KPNO
-still dealign with negative loglikes?
-got an email from Dave--he thinks I might have to get fancy like he did with LBT. He also pointed out some other stuff in his code that might be useful to change. I'm gonna look into this more tomorrow and probably talk to him about it.
Absolute Magnitude
Beth's been thinking a lot about how to calculate this and gave me a pretty good way of going about it. I wanted to finish what I was already working on, but this is on the plate for tomorrow.
-LF
-plots and normalization
-final calculations
-mag limit from 2006--90% completion
I Double checked the chi and sharp cuts I made:
I ended up using:
--sharp: -0.5 to 0.5
--chi: 0.8 to 1.5
This is more or less a generous cut to clean things up a bit. More could be done to get a more stringent cut. I also remade the CMD with these cuts and without getting close to Wil1. It looks pretty good. I noticed that the isochrone wasn't doing a good job of describing the data and realized that I must have used the wrong distance to Wil1 when I calculated the distance modulus. But that's fixed and all is well. I used the same code Anna and I wrote for Segue to match stars to within 1 sigma of the M92 isochrone. I also made a Hess Diagram which I've been playing with, but also looks really good.
I also set out to tweak the contour plot of stellar density:
Like I just mentioned, I did a better job of selecting the stars for the CMD and used only the stars that matched the chi/sharp and isochrone cuts but didn't do any ra/dec cuts so that I would have the whole field to work with. I messed with Beth's annulus idea only to realize that I was already scaling the smoothed density plot. But I wasn't ignoring the central region (where Wil1 is). So I made a mask that cut out the central square before I scaled things. It was a crude way of doing it and could be changed, but I think it'll do for now. My contours definitely turned out looking a lot better so I think I'm going to tweak the smoothing and binning tonight to see if I can't get it looking really good by tomorrow.
So, in all, I now have newly updated figures from KPNO data including: hess diagram, CMD with isochrone fit, chi and sharp cuts, stellar density plot.
Tomorrow:
Max likelihood for KPNO
-still dealign with negative loglikes?
-got an email from Dave--he thinks I might have to get fancy like he did with LBT. He also pointed out some other stuff in his code that might be useful to change. I'm gonna look into this more tomorrow and probably talk to him about it.
Absolute Magnitude
Beth's been thinking a lot about how to calculate this and gave me a pretty good way of going about it. I wanted to finish what I was already working on, but this is on the plate for tomorrow.
-LF
-plots and normalization
-final calculations
-mag limit from 2006--90% completion
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