Hi,
Here is the systematics paper referee report. It's a bit harsh, and it
seems to be written by a former QUIET person. In the end it's positive,
though.
There are three main gripes, which I'll quote:
1. The role and significance of the Jackknife failures
I dispute we have jackknife failures.
2. A detailed description of the noise model used in both the determination
> of the
auto-spectra and the null tests, in particular
the role of correlations in
> the effective noise
I think it's a fair criticism that our
noise debias uncertaintiy is nowhere
quantitatively invoked. We can include a number for noise debias
uncertainty using high ell scan jack, or even the cross correlation with
our T maps as a funciton of ell with the Planck T maps, which is 1 to
really really high precision. Incorrect noise debias would make this number
less than one.
3. Resolution of the apparent systematic discrepancy between the B2
> auto-spectra and
> the B2/Keck cross-spectra in Figure 9 of the Results Paper
Should be easy enough to reference the Keck paper.
I'll get this going in a google doc.
-Chris
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