Re: [AGN] RE: 3C454.3 seen by AGILE

[Andrew Chen <chen@iasf-milano.inaf.it>]

Obviously, yes, that's a typo.  It's (3+/-1)E-6, or (3+/-1)*10^(-6).

We're still doing calibration (we had to point away from Vela to make this
observation), so naturally our errors are much larger than our formal
detection significance would imply.

Andrew

On Saturday 28 July 2007 04:37, Toby Burnett wrote:
> Wow, has there been any other information about their performance?
> I'm a little puzzled by the number for the flux: "(3+/-1)*10E-6". Is
> this a typo? Do they mean 3E-6 with 33% error? This makes sense. Or
> 3E-5? Here is how that is interpreted by python at least:
> 3*10e-6
> 3.0000000000000004e-005
>
> --Toby
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Thompson [mailto:David.J.Thompson@nasa.gov]
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:09 AM
> To: AGNlist@glast.stanford.edu; Gamma-Ray Multiwavelength
> Subject: 3C454.3 seen by AGILE
>
> Colleagues,
>
> In case you do not follow the Astronomer's Telegrams, the AGILE group
> has announced a preliminary detection of 3C454.3.
>
> See http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=1160
>
> All the more reason to keep up any observations of this source.
>
> We all congratulate the AGILE team, I am sure!
>
> Dave Thompson

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