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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…
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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…
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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…