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Does the Lunar Surface Still Offer Value As a Site for Astronomical Observatories?
Daniel F. Lester, Harold W. Yorke, John C. Mather
Current thinking about the Moon as a destination has revitalized interest in lunar astronomical observatories. Once seen by a large scientific community as a highly enabling site,…
Intergalactic Globular Clusters
Michael J. West, Patrick Cote, Henry C. Ferguson +5
We confirm and extend our previous detection of a population of intergalactic globular clusters in Abell 1185, and report the first discovery of an intergalactic globular cluster i…
The Universal Equilibrium of CDM Halos: Making Tracks on the Cosmic Virial Plane
Ilian T. Iliev, Paul R. Shapiro
Dark-matter halos are the scaffolding around which galaxies and clusters are built. They form when the gravitational instability of primordial density fluctuations causes regions w…
The Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS)
N. Drory, U. Hopp, R. Bender +4
The Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS) is a K' selected survey covering 1 square degree in the K' and J NIR bands with complementary optical photometry in the V, R, and I bands…