At the very least it was worth recording for posterity. After the Crawford Hill meeting and a reciprocal meeting at Princeton, the two sets of collaborators agreed that they would each write a paper, to appear side by side in the Astrophysical Journal. The Princeton foursome would go first, discussing the possible cosmological implications of the detection. Then the Bell Labs duo would confine their discussion to the detection itself, so as not to align their measurement too closely with a wild interpretation that, as Wilson said, it “might outlive.”
