So we can all enjoy! Thank you everybody for your comments and help on this paper! It wouldn’t have been possible without you all!
Zaki p.s. submitting to apj by monday. Begin forwarded message: > From: [email protected] > Subject: arXiv submission submit/1189222 > Date: February 20, 2015 at 1:39:55 PM PST > To: [email protected] > Reply-To: [email protected] > > We have received your submission to arXiv. Your temporary submission > identifier is: submit/1189222. > > You may update your submission at: http://arxiv.org/submit/1189222 > > Your article is scheduled to be announced at Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:00:00 GMT. > The abstract will appear in the subsequent mailing as displayed below, > except that the submission identifier will be replaced by > the official arXiv identifier. Updates before Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:00:00 GMT > will > not delay announcement. > > A paper password will be emailed to you when the article is announced. > You should share this with co-authors to allow them to claim ownership. > > If you have a problem that you are not able to resolve through the web > interface, contact [email protected] with a description of the issue and > reference the submission identifier. > > arXiv admin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > \\ > arXiv:submit/1189222 > From: Zaki Ali <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:39:47 EST (10770kb,D) > > Title: PAPER-64 Constraints on Reionization: The 21cm Power Spectrum at z=8.4 > Authors: Zaki S. Ali, Aaron R. Parsons, Haoxuan Zheng, Jonathan C. Pober, > Adrian Liu, James E. Aguirre, Richard F. Bradley, Gianni Bernardi, Chris L. > Carilli, Carina Cheng, David R. DeBoer, Matthew R. Dexter, Jasper Grobbelaar, > Jasper Horrell, Daniel C. Jacobs, Pat Klima, David H. E. MacMahon, Matthys > Maree, David F. Moore, Nima Razavi, Irina I. Stefan, William P. Walbrugh, > Andre Walker > Categories: astro-ph.CO > License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ > \\ > In this paper, we report new limits on 21cm emission from cosmic reionization > based on a 135-day observing campaign with a 64-element deployment of the > Donald C. Backer Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) > in South Africa. This work extends the work presented in Parsons et al. (2014) > with more collecting area, a longer observing period, improved > redundancy-based > calibration, optimal fringe-rate filtering, and improved power-spectral > analysis using optimal quadratic estimators. The result is a new $2\sigma$ > upper limit on $\Delta^{2}(k)$ of (22.4 mK)$^2$ in the range $0.15 < k < 0.5h\ > {\rm Mpc}^{-1}$ at $z = 8.4$. This represents a three-fold improvement over > the > previous best upper limit. As we discuss in more depth in a forthcoming paper > (Pober et al. 2015, in prep), this upper limit supports and extends previous > evidence against extremely cold reionization scenarios. We conclude with a > discussion of implications for future 21cm reionization experiments, including > the newly funded Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA). > \\
