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The Potential Impact of Future Observatories

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The First Galaxies

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I will pose a number of open questions on galaxy formation and discuss how facilities currently under development such as the James Webb Space Telescope, the large 30m + ground based telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter Array will be able to address them. I will argue that thanks to these facilities, progress in the next 20 years will be as dramatic as progress in the past 20 years.

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    Massimo Stiavelli

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    Bahram Mobasher

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Stiavelli, M. (2013). The Potential Impact of Future Observatories. In: Wiklind, T., Mobasher, B., Bromm, V. (eds) The First Galaxies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 396. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32362-1_9

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