The proposal season has started and I've been just trying to improve my last year one. I've been just reading plenty of new papers on high redshift universe... at the end it will be just one sentence in the proposal text.
I submitted the revised version of the radio galaxy paper. It took some time to rework the referee's comments. In particular the one about the choice of the model for the emission of the hot gas. APEC is the standard thermal emission model from a collisional plasma in equilibrium, but it has a strong dependence on the metals. Our source has small number of counts and getting any reasonable constraints on the metals and temperature is not really possible... but I rerun the model and list the new parameters.
The results of the paper are nice and hopefully the referee will be o.k. with the revisions.
It is snowing tonight and I'm missing a dinner with Lukasz, Teddy, Malgosia and Giulia. Lukasz has just arrived and we hope to work for the next two weeks on random projects. Teddy is here just for two days
for discussion and support on the big chandra project. Anyway, will go out tomorrow when the snow stops..