From: Saul Perlmutter (saul@lbl.gov)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 23:41:17 PDT
Hi Everybody, Here's an urgent request to the SCP collaboration:
There is a new draft of the HST paper that has just been posted at
http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop/scp/hst/#drafts
This draft incorporates the changes that the collaboration requested
for the previous versions, and is intended to be a publishable
version. The SCP executive committee would like everybody's help to
accelerate the final steps to get this paper ready for submission.
Since we are now so close to finishing, we would like to push to submit
it before the competing team's next paper is on astro-ph (or at least
not long thereafter), since otherwise a referee might ask us to rewrite
it to include results from another new paper, greatly adding to the
effort to finish this one. So, if it is at all possible for you,
please try to "drop everything" and respond to the following requests
for help over the next few days. PLEASE, read the following carefully,
since there are few key deadlines and requests for you in it:
1. First and foremost, please read the draft and send comments in time
for Rob to incorporate them over the coming weekend. In other words,
try to get them in by the end of Friday (May 2). If this is
impossible,
please let the SCP exec committee and Rob know quickly, so we can
figure out with you what to do.
2. Please try to make clear which of your comments are: (1) extremely
important to try to fix before submission, (2) things which should be
fixed if they can but not absolutely necessary if it will slow up the
paper, or (3) something which should be checked, and perhaps fixed,
during the refereeing.
3. Send all comments to Rob *and* to "hstpaper@panisse.lbl.gov" so that
we can all look at what people are commenting on.
4. Rob will try if he can to post a "submittable" version that
incorporates the comments by Monday or, at the latest, Tuesday (May 6).
Please watch for it, and immediately look at it to make sure that you
don't
see last cosmetic problems that need to be fixed -- or if something was
missed that was crucial in the previous comments (available for all to
see on the collab web page).
5. The SCP exec committee will meet on Wednesday morning (May 7),
California time (Wednesday evening, Europe time) to "sign off" on
submitting the paper, so please email the SCP exec, Rob, *and* the
"hstpaper@panisse.lbl.gov" addresses if you see any final problems.
Also, if this will be impossible for you to do, please let the SCP exec
committee know quickly, so we can figure out with you what to do.
Thanks, everybody! This looks like it will be a really nice paper.
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