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Peter Erwin

Astronomer at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, specializing in supermassive black holes and galaxy morphology, dynamics, and evolution.

Open-source code for fitting images of galaxies: www.mpe.mpg.de/~erwin/code/imfit

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17 Which are stars and which are noise in this comet photo? Oct 15 '19
12 Calculate the true diameter of stars from photographic plate Feb 26 '19
11 Conventional matter to dark matter ratio, outside of galaxies Jun 13 '16
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10 Can “rogue” supermassive black holes be made this way? Jun 27 '18
10 Is a kilonova bigger than a supernova? Oct 17 '17
10 Why aren't ground-based observatories using adaptive optics for visible wavelengths? May 8 '16
9 What cluster of stars is this with a “dark donut” to one side? Sep 30 '19
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