Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:40:35 -0500
From: arne <arne
To: Richard Miles <rmiles.btee
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Richard Miles wrote:
> Michael / Arne,
> 
> Talking about the nature of photometric errors and their determination 
> is a whole book in itself, although I might add that error analysis is 
> actually one step removed from the 'real' astronomy.  However the 
> subject is so fundamental to physics and astronomy that one could 
> consider devoting a whole meeting or workshop in the future to this very 
> subject!
> 
> To understand measurement errors requires quite some knowledge of the 
> the astronomy side.  There is also the quest to beat down the errors and 
> there is a good deal of methodology that observers have come up with 
> over the years to do just that and which would stimulate much 
> discussion.  There are lots of topics that could be covered, one of 
> which I have been involved in recently concerns systematic errors 
> arising from unfiltered CCD work.  Lots to talk about.
> 
It would definitely be an advanced workshop.  Some of the problems
include terminology and the difference between the way that a statistician
looks at the data and the way that an experimentalist looks at the data.
We could add something like this to the Fall 2006 meeting since no
workshop is currently planned, but it would be a lot of work.  I'm
willing to consider it, though.
Arne
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