Re: bandpasses in RM

From: Arnold Rots <arots-at-head.cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:07:03 -0500 (EST)


I think I agree, too, but I thought the question should be raised to make clear what our objectives are in this respect. If it were instrumentation, one might consider splitting out the low frequencies (say, below 100 MHz), but there is not a whole lot being done there.
Actually, rather than papers or people, I think it's evening out numbers of datasets (whatever that means) or plainly (and vaguely) "astrophysical information" that counts. I assume submillimeter will be tossed in with millimeter, and that will, more or less, even it out

Andrew Lawrence wrote:
> Re Arnold's comment:
>
> *In principle I agree with the seven, but wonder where submillimeter
> *falls and whether radio ought to be differentiated. I mean, otical
> *covers just one octave, while radio comprises at least 10 octaves...
> *The distribution seems rather uneven.
>
> as an X-ray astronomer in origin I agree in principle; we tend to refer
> to the "UVOIR" to mean anything from 10 micron to 0.1 micron. Also I am
> personally scientifically in favour of highlighting the submm ... BUT ..
>
> .. we are not talking about density of wavelength pixels, but density of
> people and papers. My guess is that Bob's scheme gives a fairly uniform
> distribution of people-hours. So I vote for Bob's list.
>
>
> andy lawrence
>


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