A serendipitous search for high-redshift Lyα emission: Two primeval galaxy candidates at z ≃ 3

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 537, Issue 1 PART 1, 2000, Pages 65-72

  Manning, Curtis ^a   Stern, Daniel ^a,b   Spinrad, Hyron ^a   Bunker, Andrew J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: compact; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: starburst; Line: profiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034216492     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/309025     Document Type: Article

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