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The Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute in the context of VO activities
Inga Kamp, Randall Thompson, Alberto Conti +7
In the past year, the Multimission Archive at the Space Telescope Science Institute (MAST) has taken major steps in making MAST's holdings available using VO-defined protocols and…
Studying Galaxy Formation with Hubble's Successor
Rachel S. Somerville
In this paper, I discuss the capabilities and limitations of an 8-10 meter ultraviolet/optical telescope in space, the proposed successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, in the cont…
Evaluating the disk formation paradigm in the LCDM framework: constraints from the Milky Way
Rachel S. Somerville
We investigate the properties of a galaxy similar to the Milky Way within the context of standard disk formation theory in a LCDM universe. Using the standard assumption that baryo…
Probing Galaxy Formation with High Energy Gamma-Rays
Joel R. Primack
I discuss how measurements of the absorption of -rays from GeV to TeV energies via pair production on the extragalactic background light (EBL) can probe important issues in gala…
The Masses of Lyman Break Galaxies
Joel R. Primack, Risa H. Wechsler, Rachel S. Somerville
Data on galaxies at high redshift, identified by the Lyman-break photometric technique, can teach us about how galaxies form and evolve. The stellar masses and other properties of…
Disks at High Redshift: Interactions, Mergers, and Starbursts
Rachel S. Somerville
Do disk galaxies exist at redshifts much greater than unity, and how might they look different from local disks? How does the morphological mix of galaxies change with redshift? Wh…