Congrats, James! Best of luck back in review... On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Aguirre, James <[email protected]> wrote:
> At long, long last I have sent a revised version of the Moore et al PSA-32 > paper back to ApJ and updated the arXiv. I’ve also attached the referee’s > version with changes in bold, for those who wish to see the revisions > called out. Basically, the whole paper was re-written. > > I expect this will go at least one more round with the referee, as the > revisions are so substantial, but at least now we have a paper on arXiv to > point to showing decent evidence for ionosphere attenuation of polarized > contamination. In the meantime, Team Polarization is pressing on with > better simulations of the effect, and better measurements. > > You know where to find me for complaints. > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: **ApJ98178R1 Manuscript Received* > *Date: *February 9, 2016 at 9:50:44 PM EST > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *<[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > > Dear Prof. Aguirre, > > Manuscript entitled "New Limits on Polarized Power Spectra at 126 and 164 > MHz: Relevance to Epoch of Reionization Measurements" by David Moore, James > E. Aguirre, Saul Kohn, Aaron Parsons, Zaki Ali, Richard Bradley, > Christopher Carilli, David DeBoer, Matthew Dexter, Nicole E. Gugliucci, > Daniel Jacobs, Pat Klima, Adrian Liu, Dave MacMahon, Jason R. Manley, > Jonathan Pober, Irina Stefan, and William Walbrugh > Received February 9, 2016 > > This will acknowledge receipt of the above manuscript. > > Please reference the manuscript #: ApJ98178R1 in all correspondence > regarding same. > > Sincerely, > Staff > ApJ Editorial Office > [email protected] > > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: **arXiv replacement submit/1477823 for 1502.05072* > *Date: *February 9, 2016 at 11:09:30 PM EST > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *<[email protected]> > > We have received your replacement of 1502.05072. Your temporary > submission identifier is: submit/1477823. > > You may update your replacement at: https://arxiv.org/submit/1477823 > > Your replacement is scheduled to be announced at Thu, 11 Feb 2016 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 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 21:00:00 > GMT will > not delay announcement. > > 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/1477823 > From: James Aguirre <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:53:01 GMT (477kb) > Date (revised v2): Tue, 9 Feb 2016 23:09:22 EST (488kb,D) > > Title: New Limits on Polarized Power Spectra at 126 and 164 MHz: Relevance > to > Epoch of Reionization Measurements > Authors: David Moore, James E. Aguirre, Saul Kohn, Aaron Parsons, Zaki Ali, > Richard Bradley, Chris Carilli, David DeBoer, Matthew Dexter, Nicole > Gugliucci, Daniel Jacobs, Pat Klima, Adrian Liu, David MacMahon, Jason > Manley, Jonathan Pober, Irina Stefan, and William Walbrugh > Categories: astro-ph.CO astro-ph.IM > Comments: Submitted to ApJ > License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ > \\ > Polarized foreground emission is a potential contaminant of attempts to > measure the fluctuation power spectrum of highly redshifted 21 cm HI > emission > from the epoch of reionization. Using the Donald C. Backer Precision Array > for > Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER), we present limits on the > observed > power spectra of all four Stokes parameters in two frequency bands, > centered at > 126 MHz ($z=10.3$) and 164 MHz ($z=7.66$) for a three-month observing > campaign > of a 32-antenna deployment, for which unpolarized power spectrum results > have > been reported at $z=7.7$ (Parsons et al 2014) and $7.5 < z < 10.5$ (Jacobs > et > al 2014). The power spectra in this paper are processed in the same way as > in > those works, and show no definitive detection of polarized power. This > non-detection appears to be largely due to the suppression of polarized > power > by ionospheric rotation measure fluctuations, which strongly affect Stokes > Q > and U. We are able to show that the net effect of polarized leakage is a > negligible contribution at the levels of of the limits reported in Parsons > et > al 2014 and Jacobs et al 2014. > \\ > > >
