The HERON Coma Project: Exploring the low-surface-brightness frontiers in the Coma cluster

arXiv:2609.01708 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.IM · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-01

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• Fidelity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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