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Galactic Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Galaxy offers a rich laboratory for understanding a wide range of astrophysical issues in great detail, from near-field cosmology in understanding the (sub)structure of the dark matter halo, to the thermal dynamics and radiation transfer in the interstellar medium, to stellar evolution, and to dust formation and destruction.

Related Research Projects
  • Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4 (CMB-S4)
  • Dark Energy Survey (DES)
  • Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)
  • Magellan Telescopes (MT)
  • Rubin Observatory (LSST)
  • South Pole Telescope (SPT)
  • Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS)

Past projects: Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA); COSMUS; LDSS-3C - Low Dispersion Survey Spectrograph (LDSS-3C); Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS); Sunyaev-Zeldovich Array (SZA)

Members
FacultyResearchers
John E. Carlstrom
Hsiao-Wen Chen
Kyle M. Cudworth
Alex Drlica-Wagner
Michael D. Gladders
Nickolay Y. Gnedin
Doyal ''Al'' Harper
Lewis M. Hobbs
Edward J. Kibblewhite
Arieh Konigl
Andrey V. Kravtsov
Richard G. Kron
Donald Q. Lamb
Takeshi Oka
Paolo Privitera
Robert Rosner
Donald G. York
Vikram Dwarkadas
Priscilla Frisch

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