L. Nakazono
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L. Nakazono is a key contributor to the Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS), a major imaging project mapping approximately 9,300 square degrees of the southern sky using a unique set of 12 optical filters—seven narrow and five broadbands. Nakazono’s most cited work, the 2019 S-PLUS overview paper (197 citations), established the survey’s foundation by demonstrating how its multi-filter system enables improved spectral energy distributions, morphologies, and photometric redshifts for millions of galaxies and stars. This capability makes S-PLUS a powerful bridge between wide-field broadband surveys and deeper, narrow-field spectroscopic studies. More recently, Nakazono led the Fourth S-PLUS Data Release (2024), which delivered 12-filter photometry covering ~3,000 square degrees—a significant milestone in the survey’s ongoing expansion. Through this work, Nakazono has provided the astronomical community with a rich, publicly available dataset that facilitates studies of galaxy evolution, stellar populations, and large-scale structure in the local universe. Their contributions are essential to maximizing the scientific return of one of the most ambitious photometric surveys in the southern hemisphere.
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