Discovery of a color-selected quasar at z = 5.50

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 533, Issue 2, 2000, Pages L75-L78

  Stern, Daniel ^a   Spinrad, Hyron ^b   Eisenhardt, Peter ^a   Bunker, Andrew J ^c   Dawson, Steve ^b   Stanford, S A ^d,e   Elston, Richard ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Early universe; Quasars: General; Quasars: Individual (RD J0301171002025)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007265932     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312614     Document Type: Article

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