2005-06-28

feedback, merger rate "spectrum"

I gave feedback on recent progress on Quintero's clustocentric project, and Sam and Morad's work towards the first milestone on astrometry.net.

I put two more figures into the post-starburst environments paper, but unless I write some text for that paper tonight, I have failed today.

Morad has a great plan for the next project on the merger rate: determination of the mass accretion rate onto LRGs as a function of secondary mass. He will find out what galaxy masses dominate the mass accretion rate. One question: if the accretion onto galaxies is dominated by steady rather than impulsive (merger) events (as Romeel instructs us), does that mean that the mass spectrum of accretion events ought to "diverge" towards the low-mass end?

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