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A first look at the Spitzer Legacy Survey for Euclid

By hjmccracken | November 27, 2019

By combining mid-infrared light with optical and near-infrared observations one can find the most distant objects in the Universe, right back to the start of cosmic time. That is because the expansion of the Universe causes the light emitted by receding objects to be shifted towards the red. For the most distant objects, only the… Read More »

Thesis project: finding the highest redshift galaxies and galaxy clusters

By hjmccracken | February 8, 2018

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So, what is the origin of cosmic structures? In particular, the walls, sheets and filaments composed of galaxies and galaxy clusters? Although the seeding of these structures by tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background remains our dominant paradigm for galaxy formation, there are still — of course — unanswered questions. In particular, what role… Read More »