Simon Birrer

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• The size-luminosity relation of lensed galaxies at z similar to 6-9 in the Hubble Frontier Fields MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Yang, L., Leethochawalit, N., Treu, T., Roberts-Borsani, G., Bradac, M., Birrer, S., Castellano, M., Merlin, E., Fontana, A., Amorin, R., Trenti, M. 2022; 514 (1): 1148-1161

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stac1236

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• The primordial matter power spectrum on sub-galactic scales MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Gilman, D., Benson, A., Bovy, J., Birrer, S., Treu, T., Nierenberg, A. 2022; 512 (3): 3163-3188

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stac670

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• TDCOSMO VII. Boxyness/discyness in lensing galaxies: Detectability and impact on H-0 ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS Van de Vyvere, L., Gomer, M. R., Sluse, D., Xu, D., Birrer, S., Galan, A., Vernardos, G. 2022; 659

  View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202141551

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• The Dark Energy Survey Bright Arcs Survey: Candidate Strongly Lensed Galaxy Systems from the Dark Energy Survey 5000 Square Degree Footprint ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES O'Donnell, J. H., Wilkinson, R. D., Diehl, H. T., Aros-Bunster, C., Bechtol, K., Birrer, S., Buckley-Geer, E. J., Rosell, A., Kind, M., da Costa, L. N., Lozano, S., Gruendl, R. A., Hilton, M., Lin, H., Lindgren, K. A., Martin, J., Pieres, A., Rykoff, E. S., Sevilla-Noarbe, Sheldon, E., Sifon, C., Tucker, D. L., Yanny, B., Abbott, T. C., Aguena, M., Allam, S., Andrade-Oliveira, F., Annis, J., Bertin, E., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Carretero, J., Costanzi, M., De Vicente, J., Desai, S., Dietrich, J. P., Eckert, K., Everett, S., Ferrero, Flaugher, B., Fosalba, P., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gaztanaga, E., Gerdes, D. W., Gruen, D., Gschwend, J., Gill, M. S., Gutierrez, G., Hinton, S. R., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Jeltema, T., Kuehn, K., Lahav, O., Lima, M., Maia, M. G., Marshall, J. L., Melchior, P., Menanteau, F., Miquel, R., Morgan, R., Nord, B., Ogando, R. C., Paz-Chinchon, F., Pereira, M. S., Malagon, A., Rodriguez-Monroy, M., Romer, A. K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, Schubnell, M., Serrano, S., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. C., Tarle, G., Thomas, D., To, C., Varga, T. N. 2022; 259 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4365/ac470b

  View details for Web of Science ID 000766854100001

• DeepZipper: A Novel Deep-learning Architecture for Lensed Supernovae Identification ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Morgan, R., Nord, B., Bechtol, K., Gonzalez, S. J., Buckley-Geer, E., Moller, A., Park, J. W., Kim, A. G., Birrer, S., Aguena, M., Annis, J., Bocquet, S., Brooks, D., Rosell, A., Kind, M., Carretero, J., Cawthon, R., da Costa, L. N., Davis, T. M., De Vicente, J., Doel, P., Ferrero, Friedel, D., Frieman, J., Garcia-Bellido, J., Gatti, M., Gaztanaga, E., Giannini, G., Gruen, D., Gruendl, R. A., Gutierrez, G., Hollowood, D. L., Honscheid, K., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuropatkin, N., Maia, M. G., Miquel, R., Palmese, A., Paz-Chinchon, F., Pereira, M. S., Pieres, A., Malagon, A., Reil, K., Roodman, A., Sanchez, E., Smith, M., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. C., Tarle, G., To, C. 2022; 927 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5178

  View details for Web of Science ID 000766355700001

• The Hubble Constant from Strongly Lensed Supernovae with Standardizable Magnifications ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Birrer, S., Dhawan, S., Shajib, A. J. 2022; 924 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac323a

  View details for Web of Science ID 000738257100001

• Synchronized Coevolution between Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies over the Last Seven Billion Years as Revealed by Hyper Suprime-Cam ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Li, J., Silverman, J. D., Ding, X., Strauss, M. A., Goulding, A., Schramm, M., Yesuf, H. M., Sun, M., Xue, Y., Birrer, S., Shi, J., Toba, Y., Nagao, T., Imanishi, M. 2021; 922 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac2301

  View details for Web of Science ID 000722729400001

• A Local Baseline of the Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations for Active Galaxies. IV. Correlations Between M (BH) and Host Galaxy sigma, Stellar Mass, and Luminosity ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Bennert, V. N., Treu, T., Ding, X., Stomberg, I., Birrer, S., Snyder, T., Malkan, M. A., Stephens, A. W., Auger, M. W. 2021; 921 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac151a

  View details for Web of Science ID 000712062000001

• Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: A Mass-dependent Slope of the Galaxy Size-Mass Relation at z < 1 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Kawinwanichakij, L., Silverman, J. D., Ding, X., George, A., Damjanov, I., Sawicki, M., Tanaka, M., Taranu, D. S., Birrer, S., Huang, S., Li, J., Onodera, M., Shibuya, T., Yasuda, N. 2021; 921 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1f21

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• Strong lensing signatures of self-interacting dark matter in low-mass haloes MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Gilman, D., Bovy, J., Treu, T., Nierenberg, A., Birrer, S., Benson, A., Sameie, O. 2021; 507 (2): 2432-2447

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stab2335

  View details for Web of Science ID 000697380800057

• Gravitational Lensing Formalism in a Curved Arc Basis: A Continuous Description of Observables and Degeneracies from the Weak to the Strong Lensing Regime ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Birrer, S. 2021; 919 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1108

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• Snowmass2021-Letter of interest cosmology intertwined IV: The age of the universe and its curvature ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS Di Valentino, E., Anchordoqui, L. A., Akarsu, O., Ali-Haimoud, Y., Amendola, L., Arendse, N., Asgari, M., Ballardini, M., Basilakos, S., Battistelli, E., Benetti, M., Birrer, S., Bouchet, F. R., Bruni, M., Calabrese, E., Camarena, D., Capozziello, S., Chen, A., Chluba, J., Chudaykin, A., Colgain, E. O., Cyr-Racine, F., de Bernardis, P., de Cruz Perez, J., Delabrouille, J., Escamilla-Rivera, C., Ferte, A., Finelli, F., Freedman, W., Frusciante, N., Giusarma, E., Gomez-Valent, A., Handley, W., Harrison, I., Hart, L., Heavens, A., Hildebrandt, H., Holz, D., Huterer, D., Ivanov, M. M., Joudaki, S., Kamionkowski, M., Karwal, T., Knox, L., Kumar, S., Lamagna, L., Lesgourgues, J., Lucca, M., Marra, V., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Mazumdar, A., Melchiorri, A., Mena, O., Mersini-Houghton, L., Miranda, V., Moreno-Pulido, C., Mota, D. F., Muir, J., Mukherjee, A., Niedermann, F., Notari, A., Nunes, R. C., Pace, F., Paliathanasis, A., Palmese, A., Pan, S., Paoletti, D., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Poulin, V., Raveri, M., Riess, A. G., Salzano, V., Saridakis, E. N., Sen, A. A., Shafieloo, A., Shajib, A. J., Silk, J., Silvestri, A., Sloth, M. S., Smith, T. L., Sola Peracaula, J., van de Bruck, C., Verde, L., Visinelli, L., Wandelt, B. D., Wang, D., Wang, J., Yadav, A. K., Yang, W. 2021; 131

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102607

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• Snowmass2021-Letter of interest cosmology intertwined I: Perspectives for the next decade ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS Di Valentino, E., Anchordoqui, L. A., Akarsu, O., Ali-Haimoud, Y., Amendola, L., Arendse, N., Asgari, M., Ballardini, M., Basilakos, S., Battistelli, E., Benetti, M., Birrer, S., Bouchet, F. R., Bruni, M., Calabrese, E., Camarena, D., Capozziello, S., Chen, A., Chluba, J., Chudaykin, A., Colgain, E. O., Cyr-Racine, F., de Bernardis, P., Perez, J., Delabrouille, J., Dunkley, J., Escamilla-Rivera, C., Ferte, A., Finelli, F., Freedman, W., Frusciante, N., Giusarma, E., Gomez-Valent, A., Handley, W., Harrison, I., Hart, L., Heavens, A., Hildebrandt, H., Holz, D., Huterer, D., Ivanov, M. M., Joudaki, S., Kamionkowski, M., Karwal, T., Knox, L., Kumar, S., Lamagna, L., Lesgourgues, J., Lucca, M., Marra, V., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Mazumdar, A., Melchiorri, A., Mena, O., Mersini-Houghton, L., Miranda, V., Moreno-Pulido, C., Mota, D. F., Muir, J., Mukherjee, A., Niedermann, F., Notari, A., Nunes, R. C., Pace, F., Paliathanasisa, A., Palmese, A., Pan, S., Paoletti, D., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Poulin, V., Raveri, M., Riess, A. G., Salzano, V., Saridakis, E. N., Sen, A. A., Shafieloo, A., Shajib, A. J., Silkb, J., Silvestri, A., Sloth, M. S., Smith, T. L., Peracaula, J., van de Bruck, C., Verde, L., Visinelli, L., Wandeltb, B. D., Wang, D., Wang, J., Yadav, A. K., Yang, W. 2021; 131

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102606

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• Cosmology intertwined III: f sigma(8) and S-8 ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS Di Valentino, E., Anchordoqui, L. A., Akarsu, O., Ali-Haimoud, Y., Amendola, L., Arendse, N., Asgari, M., Ballardini, M., Basilakos, S., Battistelli, E., Benetti, M., Birrer, S., Bouchet, F. R., Bruni, M., Calabrese, E., Camarena, D., Capozziello, S., Chen, A., Chluba, J., Chudaykin, A., Colgain, E. O., Cyr-Racine, F., de Bernardis, P., Perez, J., Delabrouille, J., Dunkley, J., Escamilla-Rivera, C., Ferte, A., Finelli, F., Freedman, W., Frusciante, N., Giusarma, E., Gomez-Valent, A., Handley, W., Harrison, I., Hart, L., Heavens, A., Hildebrandt, H., Holz, D., Huterer, D., Ivanov, M. M., Joudaki, S., Kamionkowski, M., Karwal, T., Knox, L., Kumar, S., Lamagna, L., Lesgourgues, J., Lucca, M., Marra, V., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Mazumdar, A., Melchiorri, A., Mena, O., Mersini-Houghton, L., Miranda, V., Moreno-Pulido, C., Mota, D. F., Muir, J., Mukherjee, A., Niedermann, F., Notari, A., Nunes, R. C., Pace, F., Paliathanasis, A., Palmese, A., Pan, S., Paoletti, D., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Poulin, V., Raveri, M., Riess, A. G., Salzano, V., Saridakis, E. N., Sen, A. A., Shafieloo, A., Shajib, A. J., Silk, J., Silvestri, A., Sloth, M. S., Smith, T. L., Sola, J., van de Bruck, C., Verde, L., Visinelli, L., Wandelt, B. D., Wang, D., Wang, J., Yadav, A. K., Yang, W. 2021; 131

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102604

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• Snowmass2021-Letter of interest cosmology intertwined II: The hubble constant tension ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS Di Valentino, E., Anchordoqui, L. A., Akarsu, O., Ali-Haimoud, Y., Amendola, L., Arendse, N., Asgari, M., Ballardini, M., Basilakos, S., Battistelli, E., Benetti, M., Birrer, S., Bouchet, F. R., Bruni, M., Calabrese, E., Camarena, D., Capozziello, S., Chen, A., Chluba, J., Chudaykin, A., Colgain, E. O., Cyr-Racine, F., de Bernardis, P., Perez, J., Delabrouille, J., Dunkley, J., Escamilla-Rivera, C., Ferte, A., Finelli, F., Freedman, W., Frusciante, N., Giusarma, E., Gomez-Valent, A., Guy, J., Handley, W., Harrison, I., Hart, L., Heavens, A., Hildebrandt, H., Holz, D., Huterer, D., Ivanov, M. M., Joudaki, S., Kamionkowski, M., Karwal, T., Knox, L., Kumar, S., Lamagna, L., Lesgourgues, J., Lucca, M., Marra, V., Masi, S., Matarrese, S., Mazumdar, A., Melchiorri, A., Mena, O., Mersini-Houghton, L., Miranda, V., Moreno-Pulido, C., Mota, D. F., Muir, J., Mukherjee, A., Niedermann, F., Notari, A., Nunes, R. C., Pace, F., Paliathanasis, A., Palmese, A., Pan, S., Paoletti, D., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Poulin, V., Raveri, M., Riess, A. G., Salzano, V., Saridakis, E. N., Sen, A. A., Shafieloo, A., Shajib, A. J., Silk, J., Silvestri, A., Sloth, M. S., Smith, T. L., Peracaula, J., van de Bruck, C., Verde, L., Visinelli, L., Wandelta, B. D., Wang, D., Wang, J., Yadav, A. K., Yang, W. 2021; 131

  View details for DOI 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2021.102605

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• The Sizes of Quasar Host Galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Li, J., Silverman, J. D., Ding, X., Strauss, M. A., Goulding, A., Birrer, S., Yesuf, H. M., Xue, Y., Kawinwanichakij, L., Matsuoka, Y., Toba, Y., Nagao, T., Schramm, M., Inayoshi, K. 2021; 918 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac06a8

  View details for Web of Science ID 000692191800001

• Dark Matter Constraints from a Unified Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lenses and Milky Way Satellite Galaxies ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Nadler, E. O., Birrer, S., Gilman, D., Wechsler, R. H., Du, X., Benson, A., Nierenberg, A. M., Treu, T. 2021; 917 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/abf9a3

  View details for Web of Science ID 000683122800001

• Improved time-delay lens modelling and H-0 inference with transient sources MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Ding, X., Liao, K., Birrer, S., Shajib, A. J., Treu, T., Yang, L. 2021; 504 (4): 5621-5628

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stab1240

  View details for Web of Science ID 000661537200066

• TDCOSMO: V. Strategies for precise and accurate measurements of the Hubble constant with strong lensing ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS Birrer, S., Treu, T. 2021; 649

  View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202039179

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• Dark matter haloes of massive elliptical galaxies at z similar to 0.2 are well described by the Navarro-Frenk-White profile MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Shajib, A. J., Treu, T., Birrer, S., Sonnenfeld, A. 2021; 503 (2): 2380-2405

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stab536

  View details for Web of Science ID 000648999700056

• High-resolution imaging follow-up of doubly imaged quasars MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Shajib, A. J., Molina, E., Agnello, A., Williams, P. R., Birrer, S., Treu, T., Fassnacht, C. D., Morishita, T., Abramson, L., Schechter, P. L., Wisotzki, L. 2021; 503 (2): 1557-1567

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stab532

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• Combining strong and weak lensing estimates in the COSMOS field JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS Kuhn, F., Birrer, S., Bruderer, C., Amara, A., Refregier, A. 2021

  View details for DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/04/010

  View details for Web of Science ID 000644501000045

• Large-scale Gravitational Lens Modeling with Bayesian Neural Networks for Accurate and Precise Inference of the Hubble Constant ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Park, J., Wagner-Carena, S., Birrer, S., Marshall, P. J., Lin, J., Roodman, A. 2021; 910 (1)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/abdfc4

  View details for Web of Science ID 000632370900001

• Hierarchical Inference with Bayesian Neural Networks: An Application to Strong Gravitational Lensing ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Wagner-Carena, S., Park, J., Birrer, S., Marshall, P. J., Roodman, A., Wechsler, R. H., LSST Dark Energy Sci Collaboration 2021; 909 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/abdf59

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• Testing the evolution of correlations between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies using eight strongly lensed quasars MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Ding, X., Treu, T., Birrer, S., Agnello, A., Sluse, D., Fassnacht, C., Auger, M. W., Wong, K. C., Suyu, S. H., Morishita, T., Rusu, C. E., Galan, A. 2021; 501 (1): 269–80

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/staa2992

  View details for Web of Science ID 000608474800022

• The evolution of the size-mass relation at z=1-3 derived from the complete Hubble Frontier Fields data set MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Yang, L., Roberts-Borsani, G., Treu, T., Birrer, S., Morishita, T., Bradac, M. 2021; 501 (1): 1028–37

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/staa3713

  View details for Web of Science ID 000608474800079

• The impact of mass map truncation on strong lensing simulations ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS Van de Vyvere, L., Sluse, D., Mukherjee, S., Xu, D., Birrer, S. 2020; 644

  View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/202038942

  View details for Web of Science ID 000598656400006

• H0LiCOW XII. Lens mass model of WFI2033-4723 and blind measurement of its time-delay distance and H-0 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Rusu, C. E., Wong, K. C., Bonvin, V., Sluse, D., Suyu, S. H., Fassnacht, C. D., Chan, J. H., Hilbert, S., Auger, M. W., Sonnenfeld, A., Birrer, S., Courbin, F., Treu, T., Chen, G., Halkola, A., Koopmans, L. E., Marshall, P. J., Shajib, A. J. 2020; 498 (1): 1440–68

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stz3451

  View details for Web of Science ID 000587741300099

• H0LiCOW-XIII. A 2.4 per cent measurement of H-0 from lensed quasars: 5.3 sigma tension between early- and late-Universe probes MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Wong, K. C., Suyu, S. H., Chen, G., Rusu, C. E., Millon, M., Sluse, D., Bonvin, V., Fassnacht, C. D., Taubenberger, S., Auger, M. W., Birrer, S., Chan, J. H., Courbin, F., Hilbert, S., Tihhonova, O., Treu, T., Agnello, A., Ding, X., Jee, I., Komatsu, E., Shajib, A. J., Sonnenfeld, A., Blandford, R. D., Koopmans, L. E., Marshall, P. J., Meylan, G. 2020; 498 (1): 1420–39

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/stz3094

  View details for Web of Science ID 000587741300098

• The first simultaneous measurement of Hubble constant and post-Newtonian parameter from time-delay strong lensing MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Yang, T., Birrer, S., Hu, B. 2020; 497 (1): L56–L61

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnrasl/slaa107

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• A versatile tool for cluster lensing source reconstruction - I. Methodology and illustration on sources in the Hubble Frontier Field Cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY Yang, L., Birrer, S., Treu, T. 2020; 496 (3): 2648–62

  View details for DOI 10.1093/mnras/staa1649

  View details for Web of Science ID 000562471000010

• Cosmic dissonance: are new physics or systematics behind a short sound horizon? ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS Arendse, N., Wojtak, R. J., Agnello, A., Chen, G., Fassnacht, C. D., Sluse, D., Hilbert, S., Millon, M., Bonvin, V., Wong, K. C., Courbin, F., Suyu, S. H., Birrer, S., Treu, T., Koopmans, L. E. 2020; 639

  View details for DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/201936720

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• Core or Cusps: The Central Dark Matter Profile of a Strong Lensing Cluster with a Bright Central Image at Redshift 1 ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL Collett, T. E., Buckley-Geer, E., Lin, H., Bacon, D., Nichol, R. C., Nord, B., Morice-Atkinson, X., Amara, A., Birrer, S., Kuropatkin, N., More, A., Papovich, C., Romer, K. K., Tessore, N., Abbott, T. C., Allam, S., Annis, J., Benoit-Levy, A., Brooks, D., Burke, D. L., Kind, M., Castander, F. J., D'Andrea, C. B., da Costa, L. N., Desai, S., Diehl, H., Doel, P., Eifler, T. F., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Gerdes, D. W., Goldstein, D. A., Gruen, D., Gschwend, J., Gutierrez, G., James, D. J., Kuehn, K., Kuhlmann, S., Lahav, O., Li, T. S., Lima, M., Maia, M. G., March, M., Marshall, J. L., Martini, P., Melchior, P., Miquel, R., Plazas, A. A., Rykoff, E. S., Sanchez, E., Scarpine, V., Schindler, R., Schubnell, M., Sevilla-Noarbe, I., Smith, M., Sobreira, F., Suchyta, E., Swanson, M. C., Tarle, G., Tucker, D. L., Walker, A. R. 2017; 843 (2)

  View details for DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/aa76e6

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