Lensing papers submitted to ApJ

All three lensing papers have been submitted to ApJ. We now have eight papers out based on the MaxBCG cluster catalogs: the catalog papers (I,II), a cosmology analysis based on the number counts and selection function (III), a velocity dispersion paper (IV), a stacked X-ray luminosity paper (V) and three lensing papers (VI, VII, VIII). Soon, a ninth paper by Sarah Hansen on galaxy populations in the MaxBCG clusters will appear.

Lensing papers on astro-ph

The lensing papers were posted on astro-ph last week. Here are the links:

  Paper I:   Measurements        astro-ph 0709.1153
  Paper II:  Modeling/Inversions astro-ph 0709.1159
  Paper III: M/L                 astro-ph 0709.1162

There are still questions about calibration at the 10% level. We did the best we could with the data we had, I know that. But over the year since the initial measurements were made there have undoubtedly been improvements in our understanding of the photozs. But this is part of science; we have to publish sometime and we will incrementally improve our understanding as we go. Because this uncertainty comes in as a calibration, an overall amplitude, we can always re-calibrate the results in the future.

Erin