OK.  That decision to leave well enough alone I didn’t get.

James Aguirre
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> 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     
>> 
> 
> 

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