Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Response to "An empirical examination of WISE/NEOWISE asteroid analysis
  and results"   We show that a number of claims made in Myhrvold (2018) (hereafter M2018b)
regarding the WISE data and thermal modeling of asteroids are incorrect. That
paper provides thermal fit parameter outputs for only two of the about 150,000
object dataset and does not make a direct comparison to asteroids with
diameters measured by other means to assess the quality of that work's thermal
model. We are unable to reproduce the results for the two objects for which
M2018b published its own thermal fit outputs, including diameter, albedo,
beaming, and infrared albedo. In particular, the infrared albedos published in
M2018b are unphysically low. [...]
  While there were some minor issues with consistency between tables due to
clerical errors in the WISE/NEOWISE team's various papers and data release in
the Planetary Data System, and a software issue that slightly increased
diameter uncertainties in some cases, these issues do not substantially change
the results and conclusions drawn from the data. We have shown in previous work
and with updated analyses presented here that the effective spherical diameters
for asteroids published to date are accurate to within the previously quoted
minimum systematic 1-sigma uncertainty of about 10 percent when data of
appropriate quality and quantity are available. Moreover, we show that the
method used by M2018b to compare diameters between various asteroid datasets is
incorrect and overestimates their differences. In addition, among other
misconceptions in M2018b, we show that the WISE photometric measurement
uncertainties are appropriately characterized and used by the WISE data
processing pipeline and NEOWISE thermal modeling software. We show that the
Near-Earth Asteroid Thermal Model (Harris 1998) employed by the NEOWISE team is
a very useful model for analyzing infrared data to derive diameters and albedos
when used properly.

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