Press coverage A3827-paper

 

We are happy that our recent paper on Abell 3827 got news coverage! 

Most work was done by our great student Joyce Lin from Carnegie Mellon now at Madison-Wisconsin. MNRAS made our paper freely available, available here, and phys.org wrote a nice public article about it, available here. 



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