Messenger Issue 147

The Messenger is a quarterly journal presenting ESO's activities to the public. The highlights of this edition published in March 2012 include:

  • A report on the progress of the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), a second generation panoramic integral field spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope (VLT).
  • The Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Instrument (APEX-SZ), four years of observing galaxy clusters.
  • Testing the feasibility of the near-infrared surface brightness method to measure distances to Cepheid variables.
  • The story behind the search of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters and their connection with supermassive black holes in early galaxy formation.
  • The description of the GAIA-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey, a large library of high quality spectroscopy of 100 000 Milky Way stars.

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About the Messenger

Id:messenger_0147
Release date:28 March 2012, 16:18
Dimensions:21 cm (W) x 29.5 cm (H) x 0.3 cm (D)
Cover:Softcover
Language:English

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