Clumpy star-forming regions as the origin of the peculiar morphology of high-redshift galaxies

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6673, 1998, Pages 253-256

  Noguchi, Masafumi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DYNAMICS; GAS; GRAVITY; MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032546353     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32596     Document Type: Article

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