Matthew Colless

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Prof Matthew Colless

Distinguished Professor, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9552-8075
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  • 2024

    Enhancing astronomical exploration with the GMT/MANIFEST

    Zafar, T., Ahmed, U. T., Goodwin, M., Ji, A., Croom, S., Martell, S., Finkelstein, S. L., Mailvaganam, A., Mukherjee, T., Lawrence, J., Zheng, J., Neves-Hartmann, V., Santos-Silva, T., Oh, S., Martinez, J. L. C., Colless, M., Hopkins, A. M., Arnaboldi, M., Péroux, C., Brown, W. R., & 1 othersConroy, C., 2024, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy X. Bryant, J. J., Motohara, K. & Vernet, J. R. (eds.). SPIE, 1309610. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 13096).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    3 Citations (Scopus)

  • WST - Widefield Spectroscopic Telescope: Motivation, science drivers and top-level requirements for a new dedicated facility

    Bacon, R., Maineiri, V., Randich, S., Cimatti, A., Kneib, J. P., Brinchmann, J., Ellis, R., Tolstoy, E., Smiljanic, R., Hill, V., Anderson, R. I., Sanchez Saez, P., Opitom, C., Bryson, I., Dierickx, P., Garilli, B., Gonzalez, O., de Jong, R., Lee, D., Mieske, S., & 20 othersOtarola, A., Schipani, P., Travouillon, T., Vernet, J., Bryant, J., Casali, M., Colless, M., Couch, W., Driver, S., Fontana, A., Lehnert, M., Magrini, L., Montet, B., Pasquini, L., Roth, M., Sanchez-Janssen, R., Steinmetz, M., Tresse, L., Yeche, C. & Ziegler, B., 2024, Ground-Based and Airborne Telescopes X. Marshall, H. K., Spyromilio, J. & Usuda, T. (eds.). SPIE, 130941O. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 13094).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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    3 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2020

    The MANIFEST pre-concept design

    Lawrence, J., Ben-Ami, S., Braulio, A., Colless, M., Contos, A., DePoy, D., Faes, D., Gillingham, P., Goodwin, M., Houston, E., Kuehn, K., Lacombe, C., Lorente, N., Mali, S., Marshall, J., McGregor, H., Millan-Gabet, R., Nichani, V., Hartmann, V. N., O'Brien, E., & 11 othersde Oliveira, C. M., Ortolan, H., Pires, P., Ribeiro, R., Saunders, W., Schmidt, L., Souza, A., Szentgyorgyi, A., Waller, L., Zafar, T. & Zheng, J., 2020, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII. Evans, C. J., Bryant, J. J. & Motohara, K. (eds.). SPIE, 1144728. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 11447).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

    8 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2018

    Wide-field multi-object spectroscopy with MANIFEST

    Lawrence, J., Ben-Ami, S., Brown, D. M., Brown, R., Case, S., Chin, T., Colless, M., Contos, A., Depoy, D., Evans, I., Faes, D., Farrell, T., Gillingham, P., Goodwin, M., Hong, S. E., Hwang, N., Jeong, W. S., Klauser, U., Kuehn, K., Lorente, N., & 17 othersMali, S., Marshall, J., Mcgregor, H., Muller, R., Millan-Gabet, R., Nichani, V., De Oliveira, C. M., Ortolan, H., Pai, N., Park, S. J., Prochaska, T., Saunders, W., Schmidt, L., Souza, A., Szentgyorgyi, A., Waller, L. & Zhelem, R., 2018, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VII. Simard, L., Simard, L., Evans, C. J. & Takami, H. (eds.). SPIE, 10702A6. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 10702).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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    7 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2017

    The Australian space eye: Studying the history of Galaxy formation with a CubeSat

    Horton, A., Spitler, L., Mathers, N., Petkovic, M., Grin, D., Barraclough, S., Benson, C., Dimitrijevic, I., Lambert, A., Previte, A., Bowen, J., Westerman, S., Puig-Suari, J., Reisenfeld, S., Lawrence, J., Zhelem, R., Colless, M. & Boyce, R., 2017, 68th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2017: Unlocking Imagination, Fostering Innovation and Strengthening Security. International Astronautical Federation, IAF, p. 4233-4247 15 p. (Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC; vol. 7).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • 2016

    Cosmological surveys with multi-object spectrographs

    Colless, M., 2016, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Simard, L., Evans, C. J. & Takami, H. (eds.). SPIE, 99081S. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 9908).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • Instrumentation progress at the Giant Magellan Telescope project

    Jacoby, G. H., Bernstein, R., Bouchez, A., Colless, M., Crane, J., Depoy, D., Espeland, B., Hare, T., Jaffe, D., Lawrence, J., Marshall, J., McGregor, P., Shectman, S., Sharp, R., Szentgyorgyi, A., Uomoto, A. & Walls, B., 2016, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Simard, L., Evans, C. J. & Takami, H. (eds.). SPIE, 99081U. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 9908).

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    17 Citations (Scopus)

  • The Australian space eye: Studying the history of galaxy formation with a CubeSat

    Horton, A., Spitler, L., Mathers, N., Petkovic, M., Griffin, D., Barraclough, S., Benson, C., Dimitrijevic, I., Lambert, A., Previte, A., Bowen, J., Westerman, S., Puig-Suari, J., Reisenfeld, S., Lawrence, J., Zhelem, R., Colless, M. & Boyce, R., 2016, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave. MacEwen, H. A., Lystrup, M. & Fazio, G. G. (eds.). SPIE, 99041Q. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 9904).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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    1 Citation (Scopus)

  • The MANIFEST prototyping design study

    Lawrence, J. S., Ben-Ami, S., Brown, D. M., Brown, R. A., Case, S., Chapman, S., Churilov, V., Colless, M., Content, R., Depoy, D., Evans, I., Farrell, T., Goodwin, M., Jacoby, G., Klauser, U., Kuehn, K., Lorente, N. P. F., Mali, S., Marshall, J., Muller, R., & 12 othersNichani, V., Pai, N., Prochaska, T., Saunders, W., Schmidt, L., Shortridge, K., Staszak, N. F., Szentgyorgyi, A., Tims, J., Vuong, M. V., Waller, L. G. & Zhelem, R., 2016, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VI. Simard, L., Evans, C. J. & Takami, H. (eds.). SPIE, 99089O. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 9908).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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    18 Citations (Scopus)
  • 2014

    4MOST: 4-metre multi-object spectroscopic telescope

    De Jong, R. S., Barden, S., Bellido-Tirado, O., Brynnel, J., Chiappini, C., Depagne, É., Haynes, R., Johl, D., Phillips, D. P., Schnurr, O., Schwope, A. D., Walcher, J., Bauer, S. M., Cescutti, G., Cioni, M. R. L., Dionies, F., Enke, H., Haynes, D. M., Kelz, A., Kitaura, F. S., & 93 othersLamer, G., Minchev, I., Müller, V., Nuza, S. E., Olaya, J. C., Piffl, T., Popow, E., Saviauk, A., Steinmetz, M., Ural, U., Valentini, M., Winkler, R., Wisotzki, L., Ansorge, W. R., Banerji, M., Gonzalez Solares, E., Irwin, M., Kennicutt, R. C., King, D. M. P., McMahon, R., Koposov, S., Parry, I. R., Sun, X., Walton, N. A., Finger, G., Iwert, O., Krumpe, M., Lizon, J. L., Mainieri, V., Amans, J. P., Bonifacio, P., Cohen, M., François, P., Jagourel, P., Mignot, S. B., Royer, F., Sartoretti, P., Bender, R., Hess, H. J., Lang-Bardl, F., Muschielok, B., Schlichter, J., Böhringer, H., Boller, T., Bongiorno, A., Brusa, M., Dwelly, T., Merloni, A., Nandra, K., Salvato, M., Pragt, J. H., Navarro, R., Gerlofsma, G., Roelfsema, R., Dalton, G. B., Middleton, K. F., Tosh, I. A., Boeche, C., Caffau, E., Christlieb, N., Grebel, E. K., Hansen, C. J., Koch, A., Ludwig, H. G., Mandel, H., Quirrenbach, A., Sbordone, L., Seifert, W., Thimm, G., Helmi, A., Trager, S. C., Bensby, T., Feltzing, S., Ruchti, G., Edvardsson, B., Korn, A., Lind, K., Boland, W., Colless, M., Frost, G., Gilbert, J., Gillingham, P., Lawrence, J., Legg, N., Saunders, W., Sheinis, A., Driver, S., Robotham, A., Bacon, R., Caillier, P., Kosmalski, J., Laurent, F. & Richard, J., 2014, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V. Ramsay, S. K., McLean, I. S. & Takami, H. (eds.). SPIE, 91470M. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 9147).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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    94 Citations (Scopus)

  • Status of the instrumentation program for the Giant Magellan Telescope

    Jacoby, G. H., Bouchez, A., Colless, M., DePoy, D., Jaffe, D. T., Lawrence, J., McGregor, P., Bernstein, R., Shectman, S. & Szentgyorgyi, A., 2014, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. S. K. R. I. S. M. . H. T. (ed.). Peer Reviewed ed. Bellingham, USA: SPIE, p. 16

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • TAIPAN: Optical spectroscopy with StarBugs

    Kuehn, K., Lawrence, J., Brown, D. M., Case, S., Colless, M., Content, R., Gers, L., Gilbert, J., Goodwin, M., Hopkins, A. M., Ireland, M., Lorente, N. P. F., Muller, R., Nichani, V., Rakman, A., Richards, S. N., Saunders, W., Staszak, N. F., Tims, J. & Waller, L. G., 2014, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy V. Ramsay, S. K., McLean, I. S. & Takami, H. (eds.). SPIE, 914710. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 9147).

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    33 Citations (Scopus)

  • The MANIFEST fibre positioning system for the Giant Magellan Telescope

    Lawrence, J. S., Brown, D., Brzeski, J., Case, S., Colless, M., Farrell, T., Gers, L., Gilbert, J., Goodwin, M., Jacoby, G. H., Hopkins, A. M. & Ireland, M., 2014, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. S. K. R. I. S. M. . H. T. (ed.). Peer Reviewed ed. Bellingham, USA: SPIE, p. 10

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

  • 2013

    Maximum-likelihood fitting of the 6dFGS peculiar velocities

    Magoulas, C., Springob, C., Colless, M., Jones, D. H., Campbell, L., Lucey, J. & Mould, J., 2013, Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances. R. D. G. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 402-405pp

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • Measuring H0 from the 6dF Galaxy Survey and future low-redshift surveys

    Colless, M., Beutler, F. & Blake, C., 2013, Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances. R. D. G. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 319-322pp

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • The 6dFGS peculiar velocity field

    Springob, C. M., Magoulas, C., Colless, M., Heath Jones, D., Campbell, L., Lucey, J., Mould, J. & Erdogdu, P., 2013, Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances. R. D. G. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 269-273pp

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • 2012

    GNOSIS: A novel near-infrared OH suppression unit at the AAT

    Trinh, C. Q., Ellis, S. C., Lawrence, J. S., Horton, A. J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Leon-Saval, S. G., Bryant, J., Case, S., Colless, M., Couch, W., Freeman, K., Gers, L., Glazebrook, K., Haynes, R., Lee, S., Löhmannsröben, H. G., Miziarski, S., O'Byrne, J., Rambold, W., Roth, M. M., & 6 othersSchmidt, B., Shortridge, K., Smedley, S., Tinney, C. G., Xavier, P. & Zheng, J., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84463J. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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    7 Citations (Scopus)

  • Hector: A high-multiplex survey instrument for spatially-resolved galaxy spectroscopy

    Lawrence, J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Bryant, J., Brzeski, J., Colless, M., Croom, S., Gers, L., Gilbert, J., Gillingham, P., Goodwin, M., Heijmans, J., Horton, A., Ireland, M., Miziarski, S., Saunders, W. & Smith, G., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 844653. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    21 Citations (Scopus)

  • Integrating the HERMES spectrograph for the AAT

    Heijmans, J., Asplund, M., Barden, S., Birchall, M., Carollo, D., Hawthorn, J. B., Brzeski, J., Case, S., Churilov, V., Colless, M., Dean, R., De Silva, G., Farrell, T. J., Fiegert, K., Freeman, K., Gers, L., Goodwin, M., Gray, D., Heald, R., Heng, A., & 29 othersJones, D., Kobayashi, C., Klauser, U., Kondrat, Y., Lawrence, J., Lee, S., Mathews, D., Mayfield, D., Miziarski, S., Monnet, G., Muller, R., Pai, N., Patterson, R., Penny, E., Orr, D., Sheinis, A., Shortridge, K., Smedley, S., Smith, G., Stafford, D., Staszak, N., Vuong, M., Waller, L., Whittard, D., De Boer, E. W., Xavier, P., Zheng, J., Zhelem, R. & Zucker, D., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84460W. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    18 Citations (Scopus)

  • KOALA: A wide-field, 1000 element integral-field unit for the Anglo-Australian Telescope

    Ellis, S. C., Ireland, M., Lawrence, J. S., Tims, J., Staszak, N., Brzeski, J., Parker, Q. A., Sharp, R., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Case, S., Colless, M., Croom, S., Couch, W., De Marco, O., Glazebrook, K., Saunders, W., Webster, R. & Zucker, D. B., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84460V. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    14 Citations (Scopus)

  • MANIFEST instrument concept and related technologies

    Goodwin, M., Brzeski, J., Case, S., Colless, M., Farrell, T., Gers, L., Gilbert, J., Heijmans, J., Hopkins, A., Lawrence, J., Miziarski, S., Monnet, G., Muller, R., Saunders, W., Smith, G., Tims, J. & Waller, L., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84467I. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    28 Citations (Scopus)

  • 'MOHAWK': A 4000-fiber positioner for DESpec

    Saunders, W., Smith, G., Gilbert, J., Muller, R., Goodwin, M., Staszak, N., Brzeski, J., Miziarski, S. & Colless, M., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84464W. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    11 Citations (Scopus)

  • SAMI - A new multi-object IFS for the Anglo-Australian telescope

    Bryant, J. J., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Lawrence, J., Croom, S., Fogarty, L., Goodwin, M., Richards, S., Farrell, T., Miziarski, S., Heald, R., Jones, H., Lee, S., Colless, M., Birchall, M., Hopkins, A. M., Brough, S. & Bauer, A. E., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84460X. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    29 Citations (Scopus)

  • The AAO's Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST) concept

    Ireland, M. J., Barnes, S., Cochrane, D., Colless, M., Connor, P., Horton, A., Gibson, S., Lawrence, J., Martell, S., McGregor, P., Nicolle, T., Nield, K., Orr, D., Robertson, J. G., Ryder, S., Sheinis, A., Smith, G., Staszak, N., Tims, J., Xavier, P., & 2 othersYoung, P. & Zheng, J., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 844629. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    18 Citations (Scopus)

  • The dark energy spectrometer - A potential multi-fiber instrument for the Blanco 4-meter telescope

    Marshall, J. L., Kent, S. M., Diehl, H. T., Flaugher, B., Frieman, J., Kron, R. G., DePoy, D. L., Colless, M., Saunders, W., Smith, G. A., Lahav, O., Abdalla, F., Brooks, D., Doel, P., Kirk, D., Annis, J., Lin, H., Marriner, J. P., Jouvel, S. & Seiffert, M. D., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 844656. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    3 Citations (Scopus)

  • The instrument development and selection process for the Giant Magellan Telescope

    Jacoby, G. H., Bouchez, A., Colless, M., DePoy, D., Fabricant, D., Hinz, P., Jaffe, D., Johns, M., McCarthy, P., McGregor, P., Shectman, S. & Szentgyorgyi, A., 2012, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IV. 84461G. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 8446).

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    13 Citations (Scopus)

  • Variations in the Fundamental Plane of massive galaxies with stellar population, morphology and local density

    Magoulas, C., Springob, C., Proctor, R., Colless, M., Heath Jones, D., Kobayashi, C., Campbell, L., Lucey, J. & Mould, J., Aug 2012, The Intriguing Life of Massive Galaxies. Thomas, D., Pasquali, A. & Ferreras, I. (eds.). S295 ed. p. 233 1 p. (Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union; vol. 8, no. S295).

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  • 2011

    What nearby cluster can teach us about galaxy formation and evolution

    Colless, M., 2011, Fornax, Virgo, Coma et al., Stellar Systems in High Density Environments. Garching, Germany: European Southern Observatory, p. 46pp

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • 2010

    ERASMUS-F: Pathfinder for an E-ELT 3D-instrumentation

    Kelz, A., Roth, M. M., Bacon, R., Bland-Hawthorn, J., Nicklas, H. E., Bryant, J. J., Colless, M., Croom, S., Ellis, S., Fleischmann, A., Gillingham, P., Haynes, R., Hopkins, A., Kosmalski, J., O'Byrne, J. W., Olaya, J. C., Rambold, W. N. & Robertson, G., 2010, Modern Technologies in Space- and Ground-Based Telescopes and Instrumentation. 77394N. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 7739).

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    6 Citations (Scopus)

  • MANIFEST: A many-instrument fiber-positioning system for GMT

    Saunders, W., Colless, M., Saunders, I., Hopkins, A., Goodwin, M., Heijmans, J., Brzeski, J. & Farrell, T., 2010, Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III. PART 1 ed. 773568. (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; vol. 7735, no. PART 1).

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    29 Citations (Scopus)

  • The HI gas content of galaxies around Abell 370

    Lah, P., Pracy, M., Chengalur, J., Briggs, F., Colless, M. & De Propris, R., 2010, Proceedings of the ISKAF2010 Science Meeting. online: Proceedings of Science, p. 12

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

  • 2008

    The context of the local volume: Structures and motions in the nearby universe

    Colless, M., 2008, Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Jerjen, H. & Koribalski, B. S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media B.V., p. 17-20 4 p. (Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings; vol. 0).

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