[Lofarpwg] Fwd: AA/2019/36627: referee report [LBA census]

[Anna Bilous]

Dear all,

please find below the referee report for the LBA census.

Cheers,
Anya

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05/10/2019

Dr Anna Bilous

hanna.bilous at gmail.com
Our Ref. : AA/2019/36627

Dear Dr Bilous,

The manuscript entitled :

"A LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars: extending below 80 MHz"

was submitted to a referee, Joanna Rankin (who waives anonymity), who
recommends publication following very minor revision (see enclosed
report).

Please make the requested changes and send us the revised version (two
pdf files: one in referee format and the other in printer format) at
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With best regards,

steve

Steven N. Shore
A&A Editor
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Referee report

Overall:  this is a complex and well crafted project, and the results
are very well and capably described.  I recommend publication with
only slight revisions.


Small issues:
—in several places “Similarly to…” should be “Similar to ….”
—in the third paragraph of §3, Hotan et al is referenced twice in 3
lines.  Maybe rephrase to eliminate one of them?
—second line of the first full para on p. 3: fix grammar and spacing
in “data packets was dropped,resulting”
—Fig. 3 caption:  I don’t see any blue stars, they seem black to me
—§3.2, para 1, line 8: “polarizations summed."
—third to last line on p. 4: “flux density values with the ones”
—§5, para 3, l. 9: “proposes a clear dependence"
—Appendix A: is it “scintle” or “scintile”?