Unless, I'm mistaken, there are very few changes from the version on arXiv. The referee's comments were very minor. The hold-up was over the fringe rate filter. The one Zaki applied in the paper differed from the "optimal" one derived in the subsequent paper on fringe rate filtering. Unfortunately, the optimal one never seemed to work right and caused a lot of signal loss. It was eventually realized that the optimal one is ~3 times wider in time than the one Zaki used, which reduces the number of independent pieces of information by ~3. As we argued a while ago, we had reached a "lucky" coincidence where we had just enough independent pieces of information to empirically estimate the covariance. With this factor of 3 reduction, we don't anymore, and so the empirical covariance estimation blew up. Long story short, we left the power spectrum as it was in the submitted version, with presumably a little bit of extra text about why it doesn't match the optimal one in the fringe rate filtering paper.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:24 AM, James Aguirre <[email protected]> wrote: > Was there discussion of the changes made and how the various problems were > addressed? I have not seen a new draft since the version that is up on the > arXiv. > > James Aguirre > Assistant Professor > Department of Physics and Astronomy > University of Pennsylvania > 209 South 33rd Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 > (215) 898-9596 (office) > (215) 898-9646 (lab) > http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jaguirre/ > > On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Zaki S. Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:19 AM > Subject: ApJ98224R1 Decision Letter > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > > > > July 6, 2015 > > Mr. Zaki S. Ali > University of California - Berkeley > Astronomy > 501 Campbell Hall # 3411 > University of California at Berkeley > Berkeley, CA 94720-3411 > > > Title: PAPER-64 Constraints on Reionization: the 21cm Power Spectrum at z > = 8.4, ApJ98224R1 > > Dear Mr. Ali, > > I am happy to report that the above paper is accepted for publication in > The Astrophysical Journal. > > I am sending the accepted version to the ApJ editorial office. > Correspondence concerning the logistical aspects of publishing this > manuscript should be directed to [email protected]. If you have > any additional questions concerning the scientific content of your > manuscript, please direct them to me. > > Regards, > Ethan T. Vishniac > AAS Editor-in-Chief > Johns Hopkins University > > >
