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Large Magellanic Clouds near-infrared spectroscopic catalog

JAXA released the"Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC) near-infrared spectroscopic catalogue" to the world that was compiled by observation data acquired by the infrared imaging satellite “AKARI.EThe positional light source catalog released this time is one of the largest-scale LMC catalogs, and the first data as a “spectroscopicEcatalog in the world. The catalog, which categorizes celestial bodies in the LMC, is significant data for greatly advancing research on newly born stars as well as already developed ones.

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January 11, 2013