Recent content by Jean Tate

Thanks. Searching the GALEX Schema Browser, I found the following Column names, Units, and Descriptions which seem to match your description (the Tables in which they appear in curly brackets): NUV_FLUX_RADIUS_2, {blank}, Fraction-of-light radius ( 0.5000) {PhotoObjAll, VisitPhotoObjAll}...

Thanks. Well, you and I are going to have to disagree, I think, on both this and (more importantly) on how consistent L14 is, in its words and how they have been applied to both the data and analyses. The words L14 seems to use rather loosely and/or inconsistently include "intrinsic...

This post has no explicit question to @elerner (though your response would be welcome); rather, it's my attempt to make the first para of L14 somewhat less confusing (I will be editing this later, to try get the symbols and formatting right). Of course, others' inputs and comments are most...

Thanks, @elerner. I have several follow-on questions, but they are of lower priority and importance than some others I've been waiting to ask. Like the one on "stellarity index" I just posted.

I need to quote an earlier post, to provide adequate background: From L14: Checking the GALEX Schema Browser, per the link you provided, @elerner, I could find no "stellarity index" ("No Column Names or Descriptions Contain: 'stellarity'" and "No Table Names or Function Names Contain...

I've two things to add, neither of which is directly related to the OP, but which I think may add some context. 1) the "CMB", is, as detected, "just" microwaves, ~the sort of electromagnetic radiation your microwave oven emits. As does dust in the Milky Way's (and Magellanic Clouds', and ...)...

(my bold) I fully support this. It is really interesting to discuss general ideas about, and evidence for, LCDM cosmological models ("the Big Bang Theory"), why general challenges to these might be flawed, and incredibly easy to veer away from the specific scope of the two papers (Lerner 2018...

Thanks! My follow-on is more than one question, but all related, so I hope that's OK (all about the GALEX data). Did you deconvolve the PSF? If so, how? And what did you use for the PSF? Did you do a 1D or a 2D fit? If the former, which axis through the center did you use? If the latter, how...

From before this thread was temporarily locked: I will try to ask you only one question at a time @elerner, and wait for an answer before asking another.

While this thread was locked, there was an exchange in a thread in International Skeptics Forum that I think is highly pertinent: My only suggestion, for now, is as before: GitHub. While I do have an account there, I would rather not host your data @elerner. Could I suggest that you set up a...

Thanks. Got it.

"cosmic radio (20-50 MHz)" is, likewise, simply radio. So the OP's question can be re-phrased, without any significant loss of meaning, as "has 20-50 MHz radio ever been measured/detected underground or underwater?" Which is, it seems to me, a good question for an entirely different part of...

This may come as a surprise ... you are the first person I've met who said they'd heard this joke before. :smile: For me, the appeal of the joke has nothing to do with two words which have some similarity (e.g. spelling) but are actually very different (e.g. part of speech, meaning). Rather...

Wow, so many cool responses already! :smile: Not so many on what your responses were, however; did you laugh? Here's my experience, over many years and with many different people: I laughed uproariously, instantly. No one else I've told this to had that reaction, although I did get one person...

Thank you, elerner. It'll take me a while to fully digest this, particularly as I want to understand it in terms of the content of L14. However, I'm even more curious about how you "fitted the radial brightness profile with a disk law excluding the central 0.1 arcsec for HST and 5 arcsec for...