期刊名称：NEW ASTRONOMY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
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 NEW ASTRONOMY
An International Journal in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Description
New Astronomy publishes articles in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics: theoretical, observational and instrumental.
New Astronomy includes full length research articles and letter articles. The journal covers solar, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics. It reports on original research in all wavelength bands, ranging from radio to gamma-ray. | |
Instructions to Authors
Guidelines to authors of New Astronomy
Submission checklist
It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to uploading it through the online submission system for review. Please consult these Guidelines for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following items are present:
- One author designated as corresponding author:
- E-mail address
- Full postal address
- Telephone and fax numbers
- All necessary files have been uploaded
- Keywords
- All figure captions
- All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
- Manuscript has been "spellchecked."
- References are in the correct format for this journal.
- All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text, and vice versa.
- Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web).
- Colour figures are clearly marked as being intended for colour reproduction or to be reproduced in black-and-white.
For any further information please contact the Author Support Department at authorsupport@elsevier.com.
Submission of articles
General
It is essential to give a fax number and e-mail address when submitting a manuscript. Articles must be written in good English.
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the Publisher.
Upon acceptance of an article, authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright see http://authors.elsevier.com). This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A letter will be sent to the corresponding author confirming receipt of the manuscript. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: contact ES Global Rights Department, P.O. Box 800, Oxford, OX5 1DX, UK; phone: (+44) 1865 843830, fax: (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail: permissions@elsevier.com.
Submission to the journal prior to acceptance
Authors should upload their article in electronic form through the online submission system and select any of the Receiving Editors covering the subject area of the article. This electronic version will be used for the reviewing process. Authors, Reviewers and Editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail and no paper correspondence is necessary.
Note: electronic articles submitted for the review process may need to be edited after acceptance to follow journal standards. For this an "editable" file format is necessary. See the section on "Electronic format requirements for accepted articles" and the further general instructions on how to prepare your article below.
Electronic format requirements for accepted articles
General points
We accept most wordprocessing formats, but Word, WordPerfect or LaTeX is preferred. Always keep a backup copy of the electronic file for reference and safety. Label storage media with your name, journal title, and software used. Save your files using the default extension of the program used. No changes to the accepted version are permissible without the explicit approval of the Editor.
Wordprocessor documents
It is important that the file be saved in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column format. Keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the wordprocessor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed 'graphically designed' equations or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns. The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also the Author Gateway's Quickguide). Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript. See also the section on Preparation of electronic illustrations.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spellchecker' function of your wordprocessor.
LaTeX document
If the LaTeX file is suitable, proofs will be produced without rekeying the text. The article should preferably be written using Elsevier's document class 'elsart', or alternatively the standard document class 'article'.
The Elsevier LaTeX package (including detailed instructions for LaTeX preparation) can be obtained from the Author Gateway's Quickguide or from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN). It consists of the files: elsart.cls (use this file if you are using LaTeX2e, the current version of LaTeX), elsart.sty and elsart12.sty (use these two files if you are using LaTeX2.09, the previous version of LaTeX), guidelines for users of elsart, a template file for quick start, and the instruction booklet "Preparing articles with LaTeX".
Figures may be inserted in the usual way using an \includegraphics command, at the position in the article where they are cited.
Your LaTeX file will be most useful as input for the printed article if you obey the following rules of thumb:
1. Be consistent. If you use a macro for a phrase, use it throughout.
2. Use standard LaTeX mark-up. Do not hardcode your own layout for e.g. section headings, but use the usual LaTeX macro for this purpose.
3. Keep it simple. Do not define macros that accomplish complicated layout. They will also make the input process complicated.
Although Elsevier can process most wordprocessor file formats, should your electronic file prove to be unusable, the article will be typeset from the hardcopy printout.
Preparation of text
General
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these). Italics are not to be used for expressions of Latin origin, for example, in vivo, et al., per se. Use decimal points (not commas); use a space for thousands (10 000 and above).
Authors in Japan kindly note that, upon request, Elsevier Japan will provide a list of people who can check and improve the English of an article before submission. Contact our Tokyo office: Elsevier K.K., Editorial Service, 1-9-15 Higashi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0044, Japan; tel.: +81-3-5561-5032; fax: +81-3-5561-5045; e-mail: info@elsevier.co.jp.
Provide the following data on the title page (in the order given).
Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
Corresponding author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication. Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address.
Present/permanent address. If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a 'Present address' (or 'Permanent address') may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required (maximum length 50 words). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
Keywords. Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 4 keywords, to be chosen from the standard list published in the journal (see the Author Gateway). These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Classification codes. Please provide, in addition to keywords, up to 4 standard PACS codes. The available codes may be accessed at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/pacs.
Appendices. If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in appendices should be given separate numbering: (Eq. A.1), (Eq. A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, (Eq. B.1) and so forth.
References. See separate section, below.
Specific remarks
Tables. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier now accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of your article in Elsevier web products, including ScienceDirect. In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. For more detailed instructions please visit our Author Gateway).
References
Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations lies entirely with the authors.
Citations in the text. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present in the reference list (and vice versa). Any references cited in the abstract must be given in full. Unpublished results and personal communications should not be in the reference list, but may be mentioned in the text. Citation of a reference as 'in press' implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Citing and listing of web references. As a minimum, the full URL should be given. Any further information, if known (author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given. Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in the reference list.
Text. All citations in the text should refer to:
1. (in case of a single author) the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
3. (in case of two authors) both authors' names and the year of publication;
3. (in case of three or more authors) the first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references should be listed first alphabetically, then chronologically.
Examples: "as demonstrated (Allan, 1996a, 1996b, 1999; Allan and Jones, 1995). Kramer et al. (2000) have recently shown ..."
List. References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters "a", "b", "c", etc., placed after the year of publication.
Examples:
Reference to a journal publication:
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J.A.J., Lupton, R.A., 2000. The art of writing a scientific article. J. Sci. Commun. 163, 51-59.
Reference to a book:
Strunk Jr., W., White, E.B., 1979. The Elements of Style, third ed. Macmillan, New York.
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Mettam, G.R., Adams, L.B., 1999. How to prepare an electronic version of your article, in: Jones, B.S., Smith , R.Z. (Eds.), Introduction to the Electronic Age. E-Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 281-304.
Journal names should be abbreviated according to the simplified abbreviations used in astronomy journals (e.g. ApJ, AJ, MNRAS, A&A, PASP, PASJ). Refer to New Astronomy as NewA.
Astronomical Objects
Elsevier will provide hypertext links to CDS (Simbad) for every astronomical object mentioned in the text. We would be grateful if you mark the objects in the Latex file of the final version, by using the LaTeX command \astrobj{...}. For instance, if NGC 255 is mentioned in the text, replace this by \astrobj{NGC 255}. Insert the following LaTeX definition for the astronomical object command together with the other LaTeX definitions (at the beginning of the manuscript): \def\astrobj#1{#1}.
Preparation of illustrations
Preparation of electronic illustrations
Submitting your artwork in an electronic format helps us to produce your work to the best possible standards, ensuring accuracy, clarity and a high level of detail.
General points
- Always supply high-quality printouts of your artwork, in case conversion of the electronic artwork is problematic.
- Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
- Save text in illustrations as "graphics" or enclose the font.
- Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Times, Symbol.
- Number the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
- Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files, and supply a separate listing of the files and the software used.
- Provide all illustrations as separate files and as hardcopy printouts on separate sheets.
- Provide captions to illustrations separately.
- Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork. You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats (Note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings. Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".
TIFF: Colour or greyscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (colour or greyscale): a minimum of 500 dpi is required.
DOC, XLS or PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications please supply "as is".
Please do not:
- Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation) document;
- Supply files that are optimised for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG), the resolution is too low;
- Supply files that are too low in resolution;
- Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Non-electronic illustrations
Provide all illustrations as high-quality printouts, suitable for reproduction (which may include reduction) without retouching. Number illustrations consecutively in the order in which they are referred to in the text. They should accompany the manuscript, but should not be included within the text. Clearly mark all illustrations on the back (or - in case of line drawings - on the lower front side) with the figure number and the author's name and, in cases of ambiguity, the correct orientation.
Mark the appropriate position of a figure in the article.
Line drawings
Supply high-quality printouts on white paper produced with black ink. The lettering and symbols, as well as other details, should have proportionate dimensions, so as not to become illegible or unclear after possible reduction; in general, the figures should be designed for a reduction factor of two to three. The degree of reduction will be determined by the Publisher. Illustrations will not be enlarged. Consider the page format of the journal when designing the illustrations.
Photocopies are not suitable for reproduction. Do not use any type of shading on computer-generated illustrations.
Photographs (halftones)
Please supply original photographs for reproduction, printed on glossy paper, very sharp and with good contrast. Remove non-essential areas of a photograph. Do not mount photographs unless they form part of a composite figure. Where necessary, insert a scale bar in the illustration (not below it), as opposed to giving a magnification factor in the legend.
Note that photocopies of photographs are not acceptable.
Colour illustrations
Submit colour illustrations as original photographs, high-quality computer prints or transparencies, close to the size expected in publication, or as 35 mm slides. Polaroid colour prints are not suitable. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable colour figures then Elsevier will ensure, at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in colour on the web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see http://authors.elsevier.com/artwork.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting colour figures to 'grey scale' (for the printed version should you not opt for colour in print) please submit in addition usable black and white prints corresponding to all the colour illustrations.
Proofs
One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author, to be checked for typesetting/editing. No changes in, or additions to, the accepted (and subsequently edited) manuscript will be allowed at this stage. Proofreading is solely your responsibility.
The Publisher reserves the right to proceed with publication if corrections are not communicated Return corrections within 3 days of receipt of the proofs. Should there be no corrections, please confirm this.
Elsevier will do everything possible to get your article corrected and published as quickly and accurately as possible. In order to do this we need your help. When you receive the (PDF) proof of your article for correction, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication. Subsequent corrections will not be possible, so please ensure your first sending is complete. Note that this does not mean you have any less time to make your corrections, just that only one set of corrections will be accepted.
Editorial Board
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| W. Cochran |
University of Texas at Austin, McDonald Observatory, Austin TEX 78712-1983, USA., Email: wdc@shiraz.as.utexas.edu
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| P. Conti |
University of Colorado, JILA, Campus Box 440, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA., Email: pconti@jila.colorado.edu
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| M. Fukugita |
University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Kashiwa 277 8582, Japan., Email: fukugita@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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| G. Gilmore |
University of Cambridge, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Rd., CB3 OHA Cambridge, UK., Email: gil@ast.cam.ac.uk
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| L. Hernquist |
Harvard University, Department of Astronomy, Centre for Astrophysics, MS-51, Cambridge MA 02138, USA., Email: lars@cfa.harvard.edu
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| F. Macchetto |
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA., Email: macchetto@stsci.edu
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| F. Melchiorri |
University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Fisica (Gruppo G31), P. Aldo Moro 2, I-00185, Rome, Italy., Email: francesco.melchiorri@roma1.infn.it
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| K. Nomoto |
University of Tokyo, School of Science, Dept. of Astronomy, Bunkyo-ku, 113 Tokyo, Japan., Email: nomoto@astron.s.u.-tokyo.ac.jp
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| D. Sanders |
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Institute for Astronomy, 2860 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, HI 96822, USA., Email: sanders@ifa.hawaii.edu
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| U. Seljak |
Princeton University, Physics Department, Jadwin Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA., Email: useljak@princeton.edu
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| G. Setti |
University of Bologna, Istituto di Radioastronomia, CNR, Via Gobetti 101, I-40129 Bologna, Italy., Email: setti@astbo1.bo.cnr.it
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| J. Silk |
University of Oxford, NAPL - Nuclear & Astrophysics Laboratory, Keeble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK., Email: silk@physics.ox.ac.uk
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| W. Soon |
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, MS 16, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA., Email: w.soon@cfa.harvard.edu
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| R. Thompson |
University of Arizona, Seward Observatory, Tuscon, AZ 85721, USA., Email: thompson@as.arizona.edu
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| E. van den Heuvel |
University of Amsterdam, Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek", Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Email: edvdh@astro.uva.nl
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| M. van der Klis |
University of Amsterdam, Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek", Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands., Email: michiel@astro.uva.nl
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| S. Woosley |
University of California, Santa Cruz, Board Study Astronomy/Astrophysics, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
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Technical Advisory Board
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| M. Albrecht |
ESO
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| D. Crabtree |
Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
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| D. Egret |
Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
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| G. Eichhorn |
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
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| F. Murtagh |
Space Telescope-ECF
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| R. Plante |
University of Illinois
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| M. Schmitz |
IPAC-California Institute of Technology
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Scientific Advisory Board
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| I. Appenzeller |
Landessternwarte Heidelberg
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| D. Arnett |
University of Arizona
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| S. Beckwith |
Space Telescope Research Institute
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| F. Bertola |
Universit¨¤ di Padova
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| E. Bertschinger |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| R. Blandford |
California Institute of Technology
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| G. Brown |
State University of New York at Stony Brook
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| C. Chiosi |
Universit¨¤ di Padova
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| J. Culhane |
University College London
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| T. de Zeeuw |
Sterrewacht Leiden
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| R. Genzel |
Max Planck Institut f¨¹r Extraterrestrische Physik
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| J. Goodman |
Princeton University Observatory
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| P. Hut |
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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| S. Kahn |
Columbia University
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| G. Matt |
Universit¨¤ "Roma Tre"
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| D. Neufeld |
Johns Hopkins University
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| C. Norman |
Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute
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| F. Pacini |
Istituto Astronomia Arcetri, Firenze
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| W. Press |
Harvard College Observatory
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| A. Sargent |
California Institute of Technology
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| D. Spergel |
Princeton University Observatory
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| P. Steinhardt |
Princeton University
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| J. Tr¨¹mper |
Max Planck Institut f¨¹r Extraterrestrische Physik
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| E. van Dishoeck |
Sterrewacht Leiden
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Johns Hopkins University
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