Re: new Tech Note 82: Gaps in the magnitude histogram

[Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>]

Michael and all,

Wow!  Very nice.

When I wrote Michael about the "banding" problem, I said that if it was 
real one of us should start writing their Nobel acceptance speech.

Now Michael tells me it is real and has a reasonable 
explanation.  Sigh!  Looks like no speech will be needed.

Still, I find this a curious and interesting result. One wonders whether 
this will tell us something when we complete a survey for a large area of 
the sky.

Tom Droege

At 12:08 PM 4/8/02 -0400, you wrote:

>   Tom asked me a couple of weeks ago about some mysterious
>gaps he noticed in the calibrated magnitudes produced by the
>Mark IV pipeline.  I have finally investigated the issue and
>concluded that it's not the pipeline's fault (phew!).
>
>   Read all about it in Tech Note 82:
>
>       http://a188-l009.rit.edu/tass/technotes/tn0082.html
>
>   Comments welcome.
>
>                                          Michael Richmond