2018-02-05

information in stellar streams

Ana Bonaca (Harvard) arrived in town for a week of hacking on our stream-information project. She spent today getting more streams in to the analysis. The point of the project is not to model each stream in detail, but rather to examine, using Fisher Information, the information that each stream (or any combination of streams) brings to the measurement of gravitational-potential parameters. We worked also on paper scope and our original goal (way long ago) of constraining the mass and orbit of the LMC.

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