OK. That decision to leave well enough alone I didn’t get. 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 2:39 PM, Jonathan Pober <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[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 <tel:%28215%29%20898-9596> (office) > (215) 898-9646 <tel:%28215%29%20898-9646> (lab) > http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jaguirre/ <http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jaguirre/> > >> On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:17 PM, Zaki S. Ali <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:19 AM >> Subject: ApJ98224R1 Decision Letter >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[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 >> > >
