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Closing gaps to our origins. The UV window into the Universe
Ana I. Gomez de Castro, Martin A. Barstow, Fréderic Baudin +23
The investigation of the emergence of life is a major endeavour of science. Astronomy is contributing to it in three fundamental manners: (1) by measuring the chemical enrichment o…
Structure of Brightest Cluster Galaxies and Intracluster Light
M. Kluge, B. Neureiter, A. Riffeser +6
Observations of 170 local () galaxy clusters in the northern hemisphere have been obtained with the Wendelstein Telescope Wide Field Imager (WWFI). We correct for sy…
The Halos and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (HERON) I: Imaging, Sample Characteristics, and Envelope Diameters
R. Michael Rich, Aleksandr Mosenkov, Henry Lee-Saunders +16
We use a dedicated 0.7-m telescope to image the halos of 119 galaxies in the Local Volume to mag/arcsec. The sample is primarily from the 2MASS Large Galaxy At…
Prospect for UV observations from the Moon. III. Assembly and ground calibration of Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI)
Joice Mathew, B. G. Nair, Margarita Safonova +14
The Lunar Ultraviolet Cosmic Imager (LUCI) is a near-ultraviolet (NUV) telescope with all-spherical mirrors, designed and built to fly as a scientific payload on a lunar mission wi…
Pluto's lower atmosphere and pressure evolution from ground-based stellar occultations, 1988-2016
E. Meza, B. Sicardy, M. Assafin +167
Context. Pluto's tenuous nitrogen (N2) atmosphere undergoes strong seasonal effects due to high obliquity and orbital eccentricity, and has been recently (July 2015) observed by th…