Velocity-independent $\tau$ -$p$ moveout in a horizontally-layered VTI medium

Acknowledgments

The first author thanks Nicola Bienati, Paul Fowler, and Ilya Tsvankin for fruitful and stimulating discussions. A special acknowledgment goes to Giuseppe Drufuca and the members of the DSP(GEO) research group at Politecnico di Milano for their support. The second author acknowledges partial financial support from ExxonMobil and RPSEA and thanks Tariq Alkhalifah, Will Burnett, and Yang Liu for helpful discussions. Both the authors are indebted to Alexey Stovas and the anonymous reviewer for their excellent reviews. Their suggestions and insightful remarks have improved the clarity of the paper.