Vigorous star formation hidden by dust in a galaxy at a redshift of 1.4

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6679, 1998, Pages 895-897

  Cimatti, Andrea ^a   Andreani, Paola ^b   Röttgering, Huub ^c   Tilanus, Remo ^d,e  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Astronomia   (Italy)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e ASTRON   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032580209     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/31872     Document Type: Article

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