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Recent DAWN papers
Oates, S. R. et al. , Swift/UVOT discovery of Swift J221951-484240: a UV luminous ambiguous nuclear transient, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Zheng, Zhiyuan et al. , Quasars with flare/eclipse-like variability identified in ZTF, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Glazebrook, Karl et al. , A massive galaxy that formed its stars at z ≈ 11, Nature
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Welcome to the Cosmic Dawn Center
The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is an international basic research center supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.
DAWN is located in Copenhagen at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and at the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Space).
The center is dedicated to uncovering how and when the first galaxies, stars and black holes formed, through observations with the prime telescopes of the next decade (ALMA, JWST, Euclid, E-ELT, HST) as well as through theory and simulations.
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Largest James Webb program yet approved: led by researchers at the Cosmic Dawn Center
For the third time since its launch, researchers all over the world have entered the annual selection process for observing time at the James Webb Space Telescope. Among the successful proposals that have now been selected by the committee is the largest program ever conducted with Webb, “COSMOS-3D”, led by assistant professor Koki Kakiichi at the Cosmic Dawn Center. The program aims to map the early Universe in 3D, exploring how galaxies in this epoch evolved and are distributed in space.
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Giants of the Universe: Francesco Valentino receives grant to join the Cosmic Dawn Center
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Three missions left in ESA’s race for the next medium-class space mission
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Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron stars
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Colliding neutron stars provide a new way to measure the expansion of the Universe
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Astronomers discover newborn galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope