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REVISED manuscript MS #: 55905, submitted to the ApJ: 2002 June 25
(the original manuscript was submitted to the ApJ: 2002 April 22,
the first revised version was submitted to the ApJ: 2002 May 29)

Paper title: Possible Identifications for Southern EGRET Sources
                          
Authors: 
M. Tornikoski, A. Lahteenmaki, M. Lainela, E. Valtaoja

Contact information of the corresponding author:

Merja Tornikoski
Metsahovi Radio Observatory
Metsahovintie 114
FIN-02540 Kylmala
FINLAND

Phone:  +358-9-2564423 or +358-9-2564831
Fax :   +358-9-2564531
E-mail: Merja.Tornikoski@Hut.Fi

The file list:
ms.tex          -- The manuscript in LaTeX format, prepared with the AASTeX
                   macro package v5.0
tab1.tex        -- Table 1
tab2.tex        -- Table 2
tab3.tex        -- Table 3
tab4.tex        -- Table 4
tab5.tex        -- Table 5

f1.eps          -- Figure 1.  -- Figs. 1-2 can be reduced, and preferably
f2.eps          -- Figure 2.  --    should be placed close to each other.
f3.eps          -- Figure 3.  -- Figs. 3-4 not to be reduced by a 
f4.eps          -- Figure 4.  --    very large fraction.
f5.eps          -- Figure 5.  -- The size of the figures 5--13 can
f6.eps          -- Figure 6.  --    be reduced considerably (the 
f7.eps          -- Figure 7.  --    width of each figure can be reduced 
f8.eps          -- Figure 8.  --    to the width of one column or
f9.eps          -- Figure 9.  --    somewhat less).
f10.eps         -- Figure 10. --
f11.eps         -- Figure 11. --
f12.eps         -- Figure 12. --
f13.eps         -- Figure 13. --

-----  Our response to the referee report:

- We have now corrected the typos pointed out by the referee.
  -- `through' not trough'. 
  -- Page 5 First line of section 4. `thirteen' was misspelled.

- About the UMRAO data: The UMRAO web page says the following:
  " No light curves, or analysis of these data, may be included in
    papers submitted for publication without the consent and knowledge 
    of Hugh or Margo Aller. The data included on this website are
    provided as a service to the astronomical community with the specific 
    intent that they be used for calibrating data obtained with other
    radio instruments, for placing observations obtained with other 
    instruments in context, and for selecting currently active objects 
    or objects with specific variability properties for inclusion in 
    future observing proposals with other instruments.
   "
   Maybe I am over-interpretating, but being an observational astronomer
   myself I felt that if I were to contact the Allers for their unpublished
   data, I would also like to invite them to co-author this paper because
   I would feel unconfortable using large sets of unpublished data from
   their monitoring project without this. (I have used their data for some
   earlier paper _before_ they put this line on the web page but instead
   asked authors to acknowledge the UMRAO data base in the acknowledgements,
   which I then also did.) And like we explained in the previous response,
   the present paper mainly focuses on the high radio frequencies (our own
   observations at 90 & 230 GHz) so we initially did not consider the
   low-frequency data of so high priority that we would try to collect
   new sets of unpublished data. In other words, I felt that the options were 
   either to write the paper as it is now, or to invite the Allers to co-author
   the paper and work on the complete radio behavior of the EGRET
   sources and candidates. The latter would probably be interesting and 
   maybe will be addressed in some future paper by our group, but the
   approach would then be different from the current focus on the
   high-frequency tail of the radio spectrum.