Hi everyone,
I have received proofs from ApJ for the BICEP2 instrument paper. You
can find them here:
http://bicep0.caltech.edu/~bicep2/papers/2013_instrument/
There's a proof and a "redline proof", which has looser (approximate)
layout and highlights changes in red and blue. Almost all changes are
innocuous matters of journal style.
Changes to note:
* A space has been inserted in "BICEP2" to make "BICEP 2". Small
caps are preserved. The opposite was the case in the PRL, so that
it became "BICEP2" with all large caps.
* Change to the CEA postal code format. Emailed Lionel to check this.
* multi-channel electronics has been lowercased. I propose to ask
for this to be changed back to upper case since it's the proper
name of a specific system, not a generic term.
* There are a few requests for definitions of terms and acronyms,
which I can easily add.
* There are a few requests for additional information in the
bibliography. The only difficult one here is Justus's 2011 LTD,
which seems not to have been included in the published volume for
reasons unknown.
In addition, I am correcting Fig. 3 to include the nylon filter on the
sky-side of the objective lens. This isn't in the proofs but is
included in the "current PDF" link at the paper HTML page.
- Walt
Attached is the PDF of SPIE Proceedings as submitted Friday July 18. We
decided on the telecon today that unless I hear objections within 48
hours, we are considering it approved for posting to the arxiv.
Immanuel Buder
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(office) 160 Concord Ave., M-114C
(office) 617 495 7567
(mail) 60 Garden St. MS 42
Cambridge, MA 02138
ibuder(a)cfa.harvard.edu
John and I just had a discussion here about whether we should post my SPIE
proceedings to the arxiv. The concern is that because of the title (which
contains "BICEP2 and Keck Array") it could cause some unwarranted eruptions
in the blogosphere if it gets misinterpreted. Even without posting to the
arxiv, it will still get exposure through SPIE, ADS, etc., and we can post
it to bicepkeck.org (at the bottom of the page with the other SPIEs) so
everyone can get access without an SPIE subscription. So John and I are
leaning against posting to the arxiv, but what do others think?
Zeesh, are you planning to post your proceedings to the arxiv?
Immanuel Buder
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(office) 617 495 7567
(office) 160 Concord Ave., M-114C
(mail) 60 Garden St. MS 42
Cambridge, MA 02138
ibuder(a)gmail.com
<ibuder(a)cfa.harvard.edu>
I'm attaching a draft of my SPIE Proceedings for comments. The submission
deadline has already passed, but I've been given an extension until June 13.
Things to think about while reading:
In previous SPIEs we have given a full author list. I can take the BICEP2
author list from the paper, but I don't know if we have a final Keck author
list.
Do we want to submit this to the arxiv? My understanding of the SPIE
copyright is that we have to submit to the arxiv first if we do so at all.
The introduction is pretty light on references; I'd appreciate suggestions
for a few key ones people think are worth adding.
I'm trying to stay away from anything controversial related to the BICEP2
results and foregrounds. SPIE is not the right venue for it.
Section 2 naturally has a lot of overlap with the upcoming beams paper.
Abby especially, I'd appreciate your thoughts here.
I put in our latest analysis of the 100 GHz NET and a placeholder for 100
GHz map depth. If we don't feel the 100 GHz map depth is ready to publish,
I plan to just say it is already deeper than BICEP1.
Note: I used the online collaborative paper-writing tool authorea.com (spin
off of Harvard CfA) to write these proceedings.
Immanuel Buder
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(office) 617 495 7567
(office) 160 Concord Ave., M-114C
(mail) 60 Garden St. MS 42
Cambridge, MA 02138
ibuder(a)gmail.com
<ibuder(a)cfa.harvard.edu>
Hi gang,
Those of you entering the job market, please take note:
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Subject: Your talk at Strings 2014 and your job recommendations
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 00:08:09 +0200
From: Martin Schnabl <schnabl.martin(a)gmail.com>
To: jmkovac(a)cfa.harvard.edu
Dear John,
in the opening slide of your nice presentation you enthusiastically
recommended your junior colleagues from BICEP2 for jobs.
Now, this actually came in the moment, when we do have an opening for
an experimental or theoretical cosmologist in Prague, Czech Republic.
Now, obviously, 100 years after Einstein left the town, Prague is not
know as a major center of cosmology. Therefore, we are looking
especially for an ambitious young talented cosmologist who could set
up their own elite team (which could itself be part of a bigger
international collaboration) . The position would be funded for five
years from a special prestigious grant from the Academy of Sciences of
Czech Republic
(ASCR) and then it would smoothly transition into the full tenure. The
deadline for the application is July 31st.
For more details, please see our official announcement:
https://inspirehep.net/record/1299481
We would be grateful if you could circulate this message among your
junior colleagues.
Kind regards,
Martin Schnabl
--
Mgr. Martin Schnabl, Ph. D.
Institute of Physics AS CR
Na Slovance 2, Praha 8
Czech Republic
Tel: 420 2 6605 2650