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1994, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, Volumes 28-30, Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, page 50, The X-ray luminosity function has been determined so far only for the far only for the central parts of the Chamaeleon SFR by Fiegelson et al. (1993).
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2001, A. Mizuno, T. Hayakawa, T. Onishi, Y. Fukui, Dense Core Survey toward the Chamaeleon Dark Cloud Complex with the NANTEN Radio Telescope, Alwyn Wootten (editor), Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA): Proceedings of a Conference, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, page 146.
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2005, Memorie Della Società Astronomica Italiana, Volume 76, Issues 1-2, Società Astronomica Italiana, page 263, We note, however, that the surveyed area in Chamaeleon II was relatively small in comparison with the other two regions, covering only part of a cloud core to the north-west.
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Closest matches include chameleon, adaptable person, color-changing lizard, shape shifter, social chameleon.
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