ELT Observations of Supernovae at the Edge of the Universe
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1 INAF-Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Largo E. Fermi 5, 50125, Firenze, Italy 2 European Southern Observatory, 3107 Alonso de Cordova, Santiago, Chile 3 ESA/Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA 4 Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris CNRS, 98bis Boulevard Arago, 75014 Paris, France 5 Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA 6 European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, Garching D-85748, Germany
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