Reply to “ Comment on ‘ Properties of 26 Mg and 26 Si in the sd shell model and the determination of the 25 Al ( p , γ ) 26 Si reaction rate ’ ”

W. A. Richter,1,2 B. Alex Brown,3 A. Signoracci,3 and M. Wiescher4 1iThemba LABS, P.O. Box 722, Somerset West 7129, South Africa 2Department of Physics, University of the Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa 3Department of Physics and Astronomy and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1321, USA 4Department of Physics and Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA (Received 27 September 2011; published 7 November 2011)