HERA – Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Arrays
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Donald C. Backer, James Aguirre, Judd D. Bowman, Richard Bradley, Chris L. Carilli, Steven R. Furlanetto, Lincoln J. Greenhill, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Colin Lonsdale, Sterphen M. Ord, Aaron Parsons, & Alan Whitney 1University of California, Berkeley; [email protected]; 510-NGC-5128 2University of Pennsylvania 3California Institute of Technology 4National Radio Astronomy Observatory 5University of Virginia 6University of California, Los Angeles 7Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics 8Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9Haystack Observatory 11University of Washington 12Curtin University of Technology
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