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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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38 Are there observable changes in a star about to become supernova, minutes or hours before the explosion? Sep 21 '16
11 Is a kilonova bigger than a supernova? Oct 17 '17
11 Why aren't ground-based observatories using adaptive optics for visible wavelengths? May 8 '16
11 What is the name of our Solar System? Jun 23 '15
10 Conventional matter to dark matter ratio, outside of galaxies (Bounty!) Jun 13 '16
9 Can “rogue” supermassive black holes be made this way? Jun 27 '18
8 Why do we define the Milky Way's rotation in a left-hand coordinate system? Mar 30 '17
8 How to find which part of the sky a photo contains? Jun 17 '16
7 Why is M87's relativistic jet bent? Sep 3 '18
7 We know what a nova is, but how? May 4 '18
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