Astronomical Software

"Charles Francis" wrote in message ...
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The teleconnection prediction is simply the same as
Reiss eq 11 multiplied by an extra factor of sqrt(1+z).

I did the fits and have posted the Matlab program and a plot
of Reiss's fit (in red) and your fit (in blue) on my website at
http://bobday.vze.com. Scroll to the bottom of the page --
they're under the heading "CF Fits". I added your extra factor
of sqrt(1+z) to the factor of (1+z) that's before the integral in
Riess's equation 11, making it (1+z)^(3/2). Is that correct?
The optimum fit is pretty strange though. The values that
produced the optimum were Omega_m = 1.22, and
Ho = 63.9. (I let Ho be a variable since no one knows quite
what it is -- some researchers still believe it's in the '50s.)
Chi-square was 187.2168. The optimum for Riess's equation 11
was Omega_m = 0.31 and Ho = 64.3, with a Chi-square value
of 177.0730.

-- Bob Day