Re: HST Paper -- can I resubmit?

From: Greg Aldering (aldering@panisse.lbl.gov)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 08:25:44 PDT

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    >On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 06:39:09PM -0700, Greg Aldering wrote:
    >> In the abstract it says "... show *no trend* of anomalous negative
    >> E(B-V) at higher redshifts."
    >
    >Er... "no trend of anomalous negative..." is very different from just
    >"no trend" by itself. What's the worry here? What this says is right,
    >and it's not claiming that there is no trend at all.

    My problem is with the word "trend" itself. I'm sorry if that was not
    clear. To me "trend" means that one thing varies smoothly as a function
    of another thing. The "another thing" here is redshift, and I don't
    want us to be saying anything that translates as "E(B-V) varies (or
    does not vary) smoothly as a function of redshift" because then we get
    in trouble both conceptually and in terms of the plot of E(B-V) versus
    redshift.

    In the case of the abstract, you could just remove "trend of" and
    it would work. However, the added text "This correlation between
    \ebv\ and $z$ ..." is still a problem and should be changed to something
    closer to what I suggested.

    - Greg

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