some notes on Greg's comments Re: HST paper - edits and comments to referee

From: Robert A. Knop Jr. (robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 09:37:08 PDT

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    On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:48:51PM -0700, Greg Aldering wrote:
    > I will repeat my question concerning Table 6 - are there error bars
    > on the U-B values that we should quote?

    The formal uncertainties from the papers are enough smaller than the
    spread in the values that I don't think quoting those uncertainties
    would add anything of substance. It would take me a short while to
    figure out exactly what should be quoted, so unless we consider this
    really necessary, I'd be happier if we just leave it as is. (Note that
    the referee didn't comment on this.)

    > I didn't see any difference between the old and new versions of Figure 3.
    > In the reply to the referee you said that the old histogram was in error.

    It was just a cosmetic bug-- equivalently the X-axis was too long.
    I've rewritten the response to state that.

    > Do you really think it is necessary to list all the minute changes in the
    > text, in the section "Small textual changes"? I don't think that is what
    > is meant by "detail the revisions ..."

    "Detail" sounds like detail to me. The list of changes is not
    overwhelming, so I'm not sure what the problem with listing them is.
    But if others don't like this, I can leave that out, instead stating
    that there were several minor wording changes, and I can provide a list
    if the editor wants it.

    > That's all I have. I have not addressed any reworking of the closing
    > paragraph, nor a Hubble diagram with binned data.

    I will send out a message re: binning shortly.

    I think the last paragraph is fine as is, and that we don't need to
    worry about rewriting it.

    -Rob



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