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Joel Kastner, professor in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science and School of Physics and Astronomy, and RIT alumnus David Principe ’14 Ph.D. (astrophysical sciences and technology) co-authored a chapter for Springer’s Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics. The chapter focuses on the population of young stars (less than 100 million years old) within a few hundred light years of Earth.
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