Submillimetre-wavelength detection of dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshift

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6690, 1998, Pages 248-251

  Barger, A J ^a   Cowie, L L ^a   Sanders, D B ^a   Fulton, E ^a   Taniguchi, Y ^b   Sato, Y ^b,c   Kawara, K ^d   Okuda, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DUST; ENERGY; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032537778     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28338     Document Type: Article

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