Galaxies Across Cosmic Time with JWST
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چکیده
and the JWST Flight Science Working Group: John Mather (NASA/GSFC, chair), Mark Clampin (NASA/GSFC), Rene Doyon (U. of Montreal), Kathy Flanagan (STScI), Marijn Franx (Leiden U.), Jonathan Gardner (NASA/GSFC), Matthew Greenhouse (NASA/GSFC), Heidi Hammel (SSI), John Hutchings (Herzberg I. of A.), Peter Jakobsen (ESA), Simon Lilly (ETH-Zurich), Mark McCaughrean (U. of Exeter), Matt Mountain (STScI), George Rieke (U. of Arizona), George Sonneborn (NASA/GSFC), Massimo Stiavelli (STScI), and Gillian Wright (UK ATC).
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