Galaxies Similar to the Milky Way

About the Data

• Data Description

  Data DescriptionProposal: A description of the observations, their scientific justification, and the links to the data available in the science archive.
  Science Team: The astronomers who planned the observations and analyzed the data. "PI" refers to the Principal Investigator.

  This release is based on Hubble data from proposals 12177 and 12328: P. van Dokkum (Yale University), C. Steidel (Caltech), H.-W. Rix (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), M. Kriek (University of California, Berkeley), G. Kauffmann (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), G. Brammer (European Southern Observatory), D. Erb (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), M. Franx (Leiden University), N. Schreiber (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), X. Fan (University of Arizona), R. Quadri, I. Labbe, and P. McCarthy (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington), D. Marchesini (Tufts University), A. Pasquali (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), J. Hennawi (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), D. Wake (Yale University), and S. Patel (Leiden University). The science teams comprise the following: Patel et al. Paper: S. Patel, M. Fumagalli, and M. Franx (Leiden University), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), A. van der Wel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.), J. Leja (Yale University), I. Labbe (Leiden University), G. Brammer (European Southern Observatory), R. Skelton and I. Momcheva (Yale University), K. Whitaker (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), B. Lundgren (University of Wisconsin, Madison), A. Muzzin (Leiden University), R. Quadri (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington), E. Nelson (Yale University), D. Wake (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and H.-W. Rix (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics). van Dokkum et al. Paper: P. van Dokkum, J. Leja, and E. Nelson (Yale University), S. Patel (Leiden University), R. Skelton and I. Momcheva (Yale University), G. Brammer (European Southern Observatory), K. Whitaker (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), B. Lundgren (University of Wisconsin, Madison), M. Fumagalli (Leiden University), C. Conroy (University of California, Santa Cruz), N. Schreiber (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), M. Fumagalli (Leiden University), M. Kriek (University of California, Berkeley), I. Labbe (Leiden University), D. Marchesini (Tufts University), H.-W. Rix and A. van der Wel (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), and S. Wuyts (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics).