Sandra Faber

Yes.

David Burstein, Roger Davies, Alan Dressler, Sandra Faber, Donald Lindenbell, Roberto Terlovich, and Gary Wagner.

A total powerhouse team.

And their objective was staggeringly ambitious for the technology of the mid-1980s.

You have to rely on fundamental galactic physics, specifically what we call scaling relations.

The Samurai built their entire project on a foundational concept called the Faber-Jackson relation.

Named after Sandra Faber, one of the Samurai, right?

Yes, co-discovered a decade earlier in 1976 by Faber and Robert Earl Jackson.