High-redshift star formation in the Hubble Deep Field revealed by a submillimetre-wavelength survey

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6690, 1998, Pages 241-247

  Hughes, David H ^a   Serjeant, Stephen ^b   Dunlop, James ^a   Rowan Robinson, Michael ^b   Blain, Andrew ^c   Mann, Robert G ^b   Ivison, Rob ^a   Peacock, John ^a   Efstathiou, Andreas ^b   Gear, Walter ^d   Oliver, Seb ^b   Lawrence, Andy ^a   Longair, Malcolm ^c   Goldschmidt, Pippa ^b   Jenness, Tim ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DUST; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0032537785     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28328     Document Type: Article

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