Week 7

Day 1. I began my work on error bars for the normalization of the luminosities of my clusters. I am able to subplot all of the clusters. After I get my plot to work, I look at Lei Bai's papers to get an idea on how to normalize her luminosity functions.

Day 2. I begin to work on the email of tasks that I have been given. I am trying to plot RA vs DEC. This requires me to write code that calls in 2 different tables. I have to set a flag in order to identify those that belong to the cluster and those that are not a part of the cluster. I then subplotted them. When that was finished, I began to work on using sigma^3 to normalize my functions.

Day 3. I continue to try and figure out my sigma squared using the dictionaries that I was given yesterday. I then continue working on the sigma^3 but keep finding different errors. Rose helps me fix my sigma^3 work and I am able to work on making the plots nice.

Day 4. I am trying to figure out what is wrong with my axis. I can't figure it out so I go and work on some code academy. Rose gives me some suggestions on how I can fix my axis. I spend the rest of the time working on that. I also was able to successfully plot all of the clusters on one graph.

Day 5. I comment my program so that when people look back to try and use it, they can understand what is going on. I work on my program that puts the clusters in one figure. I try and change the color for each cluster. There is now a line connecting all the error bars but I cannot figure out how to get rid of them.

Week 6

Day 1. I tried to work on a least squared fit for our data. We are now going work on figuring out the completeness. We need to figure out how to use code for binning. I am using a boolean statement to check if there is cluster membership. This allows me to only plot the members of the cluster. We tried to work on the code that will allow us to fit nicely.

Day 2. We attempted to debug a binning code. I keep working through the errors. I checked line by line to find out where I was going wrong. I tried to work on some sample data but ended up having to do some more debugging.

Day 3. I worked on fitting the binning to my data for the local clusters. I was able to call the other file into my code. I was also able to get a histogram which we are no certain of its correctness. All but one of the bars have a height of one. We think this might be because of the completeness equation. Error bars are going to have to be placed but for now this is what we have.