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astro-ph.GA2016★ 6 cited
Future Prospects: Deep Imaging of Galaxy Outskirts using Telescopes Large and Small
Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum, Charlie Conroy +5
The Universe is almost totally unexplored at low surface brightness levels. In spite of great progress in the construction of large telescopes and improvements in the sensitivity o…
astro-ph.GA2016★ 257 cited
A High Stellar Velocity Dispersion and ~100 Globular Clusters for the Ultra Diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44
Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Jean Brodie +6
Recently a population of large, very low surface brightness, spheroidal galaxies was identified in the Coma cluster. The apparent survival of these Ultra Diffuse Galaxies (UDGs) in…