Observing Dark Worlds: A crowdsourcing experiment for dark matter mapping

@article{Harvey2014ObservingDW,
  title={Observing Dark Worlds: A crowdsourcing experiment for dark matter mapping},
  author={David R. Harvey and Thomas D. Kitching and Joyce Noah-Vanhoucke and Ben Hamner and Tim Salimans and Ana M. Pires},
  journal={Astron. Comput.},
  year={2014},
  volume={5},
  pages={35-44}
}
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