Wednesday, March 15, 2017

This week, I continued to move forward with compiling information for all galaxies within a certain radius of Virgo. We still cannot get the flow model working, so my job was to line match a myriad of catalogs we have. I wrote a python script to do this, and was able to successfully create catalogs for stellar mass, HI content, bulge-to-total mass ratios, UV, and infrared data. Yay!

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Our flow model is still a mess. This week, we decided to take a break from trying to decipher the Kim+2016 filament selection criteria, because our issues are certainly not computational in nature. Ignoring the fact that we cannot yet pick out filaments, my goal for the week was to be able to at least cut the Nasa Sloan Atlas table down from ~140,000 galaxies to only the galaxies located within a certain radius of Virgo. I got this program up and running, so it appears that I will have to start trying to match the Kim+2016 paper again. I also spent much of this week trying to understand the nature of cartesian supergalactic coordinates.