Reply to “Comment on ‘New formulas for the $\left(-2\right)$ moment of the photoabsorption cross section, ${\sigma }_{-2}$’ ”

I reply to the preceding Comment.

Figure 1

${\sigma }_{{}_{-2}}$ plots for different sets of $\left(S_v,S_s/S_v\right)$ symmetry-energy parameters discussed in this work. The ${\sigma }_{{}_{-2}}$ data vs $A$ on a log-log scale from the 1988 photoneutron cross-section evaluation (circles) [12] and from data provided in the Comment (squares) are shown for comparison. From the data presented in Fig. 1 of the Comment, the ${}^{68}\mathrm{Ni}$ data point has been removed (see text for explanation) and the ${}^{40}\mathrm{Ca}$ data point has not been lowered from Ref. [6].