Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Tully Fisher, Take 2

So the Tully Fisher plot in the previous post is great and all, but wouldn't it be nice to have the ability to make a scientifically useful plot instead of just using Illustrator?

Yes.

After a few email exchanges with Marla Geha, I obtained the data she used to make the plot in Geha et al. (2006). And here's the first draft of the useful plot:

The grey dots are the sample galaxies that Marla got from the literature (see Figure 7 in her paper for a color-coded version), and the ones with errors bars at the bottom are her sample. The red stars, on the other hand, are our simulated galaxies. The galaxies used were: h204, h239, h277, h285, h516, h579, h590, h603, and h986. Chris claims he's working on h799, so that should appear shortly. For h516, I used the run with the new star formation recipe because it matches much better.

5 comments:

Charlotte said...

I can't see it. :-(

Adrienne said...

Odd. It's a png file and I uploaded the same as before.. maybe something's up with the new computers?

Jillian said...

I can see it. Looks lovely.

Fabio Governato said...

Can we add MW1 as well? Because it is one of our best...

Fabio Governato said...

so nothing new? how bout the real stuff?