A note on Harris Morrison sweeping families (Q2345582)

In [Invent. Math. 99, No. 2, 321--355 (1990; Zbl 0705.14026)] \textit{J. Harris} and \textit{I. Morrison} studied simply branched covers of \(\mathbb P^1\). By varying a branch point, they constructed a sweeping family of curves for bounding slopes of effective divisors on the moduli space of stable genus \(g\) curves \(\overline{\mathcal M}_g\). In this paper, the authors elaborate on Harris-Morrison's construction by considering the base curve of the family with arbitrary genus and obtain asymptotic results about the slope and index of the family.