Chris Lintott’s Universe

January 10th, 2008

AAS : Look, I’m on youtube

Posted by chrislintott in Galaxyzoo

The AAS group liveblog over at Astronomy Cast has done a fantastic job of providing all the news from the conference. Phil Plait caught up with me earlier and asked me about the Galaxy Zoo cosmology results we announced today; you can see the result below. I think we should have found more light, and I shouldn’t have worn this shirt…

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January 10th, 2008

AAS: Taking it one STAGES at a time

Posted by chrislintott in Galaxyzoo, Lectures

This morning has been insanely busy; rewriting my talk which I’m giving tomorrow in the light of the results of the Galaxy Zoo bias study hasn’t helped. (You can see the latest here.) I did manage to sit in on an excellent press conference this morning though; the highlight was the results from the STAGES survey of a galaxy supercluster. Pamela sums up my feelings here. Oh, and there was a double Einstein ring, too.