comments from Brian Boyle

[Boud Roukema]

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Gary Mamon wrote:

> Brian Boyle (PI of 2dF quasar survey) came to my talk at Macquarie
> University. He seemed to like our analysis. His main comment was: "Have
> you tried repeating your correlation function analysis by replacing the
> scambled redshifts with a smoothed redshift distribution?" This is what I
> gathered you (Boud) have done these last few days (extrapolating from
> Boud's often cryptic messages). I answered that we are in the process of

That's more or less correct, except that we've used the full catalogue
observational dN/dz rather than a smoothed distribution. Remember that
we analyse individual "fields" and then average them, so this ought to
be better than z-scrambling.

We should also test a smoothed dN/dz, I agree, although the interpretation
will be tricky because of the z selection effects...

> doing just that, and our *** preliminary *** result is that the 125 h-1
> Mpc feature comes out strongly in the 1st z-bin, but that we did not have
> yet any conclusion on Omega,Lambda.

This is a correct statement.

Hopefully by the end of the week we'll be able to say some less
"cryptic" ;) statements and each of us  will be able to
compile DE-V0.05 (or DE-V0.06) and check the results...

Czesc
Boud