From alro0564@colorado.edu Sun Nov 18 03:10:49 2018 From: Alberto Roper Pol Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 18:10:29 -0800 Subject: Fwd: ApJ - Referee's report on AAS12599R1 To: Axel Brandenburg Hi Axel, I have received the answer for the E and B polarization paper. Best, Alberto ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Date: Sat, Nov 17, 2018, 1:26 PM Subject: ApJ - Referee's report on AAS12599R1 To: November 17, 2018 Mr. Alberto Roper Pol University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80303 Title: $E$ and $B$ polarizations from inhomogeneous and solar surface turbulence Dear Mr. Roper Pol, We have received the referee's report on your above submission to The Astrophysical Journal, and it is appended below. As you will see, the referee thinks highly of your work and has only a few suggestions for relatively minor changes. Once these are addressed, I should be happy to accept the paper for publication. When you resubmit the manuscript, please include a cover letter in which you outline in detail the specific changes you have made in response to each of the referee's comments. Click the link below to upload your revised manuscript; https://aas.msubmit.net/cgi-bin/main.plex?el=A2KO1CGl4A2EuAf3J3A9ftdK6fTKMAOmzq4OTDNIgBBTwZ Alternatively, you may also log into your account at the EJ Press web site, http://apj.msubmit.net. Please use your user's login name: aroperpol. You can then ask for a new password via the Unknown/Forgotten Password link if you have forgotten your password. Reviewers find it helpful if the changes in the text of the manuscript are easily distinguishable from the rest of the text. Therefore we ask you to print changes in bold face. The highlighting can be removed easily after the review. The AAS Journals have adopted a new policy that manuscript files become inactive, and are considered to have been withdrawn, six months after the most recent referee's report goes to the authors, provided a revised version has not been received by that time. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Gary Zank AAS Scientific Editor gary.zank@aas.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Referee Report Reviewer's Comments: Overall, the authors addressed concerns outlined in my previous report by adding results for nonhelical turbulence. They find that the same skewness of the E-mode polarization is responsible for the anomalous EE/BB ratios in the absence of helicity. In my view, this new result should have changed the narrative, but the authors decided to make only small cosmetic changes to the manuscript. This is their choice, and I am ready to recommend acceptance of the paper after the following minor fixes are made. 1). Word "helical" should be dropped from the second sentence of the Abstract to reflect the shift in the revised version: "... physical mechanisms, for example hydromagnetic turbulence in the case of dust polarization." 2). Table 1 was updated to include new data for nonhelical cases. However, now its caption "Variance, .... for the distributions shown in Figure 6." is confusing because Fig. 6 unfortunately does not show anything for the nonhelical case. The best way to correct this would be by adding two new panels for the nonhelical case to Fig. 6. Same problem relates to Fig. 8 as well.