Cosmologically distant OH megamasers: A test of the galaxy merging rate at Z ≈2 and a contaminant of blind HI surveys in the 21cm line

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 336, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 815-822

  Briggs, F H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Active galaxies: Evolution; Galaxies: Interaction; Infrared: Galaxies radio lines: Galaxies; Techniques: Radar astronomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012431549     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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