quibble with opening sentence

From: Tony Spadafora (ALSpadafora@lbl.gov)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 18:35:51 PDT

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    Rob,

    IN the opening sentence: Saul and I suggest to add "in a series of
    papers," in line 4 below:

    Five years ago, the Supernova Cosmology
    Project (SCP) and the High-Z Supernova Search
    both reported observations of Type Ia supernovae
    (SNe Ia) in a series of papers, which gave strong evidence for an acceleration
    of the Universe's expansion, and hence
    for a non-zero cosmological constant, or dark energy
    density (Perlmutter et al. 1998; Garnavich et
    al. 1998a; Schmidt et al. 1998; Riess et al. 1998;
    Perlmutter et al. 1999, for a review, see Perlmutter
    & Schmidt 2003).

    (I am concerned a referee from the other team would accuse us of trying
    to assert publication priority over them using the Nature paper. The
    "strong evidence for an acceleration" primarily comes from Riess 98,
    P99. )

    -Tony 

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