Response to Leahy's Comment on the Data's Indication of Cosmological Birefringence
Astrophysics
2008-02-03 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Recently, J. P. Leahy commented (astro-ph/9704285) on the indication of anisotropy in the propagation of radio waves over cosmological distances, published by Nodland and Ralston (B. Nodland and J. P. Ralston, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3043 (1997); astro-ph/9704196). Unfortunately, Leahy ignores the need for a statistical comparison, egregiously selects data, compares incompatible measures, uses a variable incapable of resolving birefringence, and makes mistakes in the calculations he presents.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9706126,
title = {Response to Leahy's Comment on the Data's Indication of Cosmological Birefringence},
author = {Borge Nodland and John P. Ralston},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9706126},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
3 pages, ReVTeX. Submitted to Physical Review Letters. More information is available at http://www.cc.rochester.edu/college/rtc/Borge/aniso.html