A large population of 'Lyman-break' galaxies in a protocluster at redshift z ≈ 4.1

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6969, 2004, Pages 47-50

  Miley, George K ^a   Overzier, Roderik A ^a   Tsvetanov, Zlatan I ^b   Bouwens, Rychard J ^c   Benitez, Narciso ^b   Blakeslee, John P ^b   Ford, Holland C ^b   Illingworth, Garth D ^c   Postman, Marc ^d   Rosati, Piero ^e   Clampin, Mark ^d   Hartig, George F ^d   Zirm, Andrew W ^a   Röttgering, Huub J A ^a   Venemans, Bram P ^a   Ardila, David R ^b   Bartko, Frank ^f   Broadhurst, Tom J ^g   Brown, Robert A ^b   Burrows, Chris J ^b   Cheng, E S ^h   Cross, Nicholas J G ^b   De Breuck, Carlos ^e   Feldman, Paul D ^b   Franx, Marijn ^a   Golimowski, David A ^b   Gronwall, Caryl ^b   Infante, Leopoldo ⁱ   Martel, André R ^b   Menanteau, Felipe ^b   Meurer, Gerhardt R ^b   Sirianni, Marco ^b   Kimble, Randy A ^h   Krist, John E ^f   Sparks, William B ^d   Tran, Hien D ^b   White, Richard L ^d   Zheng, Wei ^b   more..

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f Bartko Science and Technology   (United States)

^g HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ASTROPHYSICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIATION; SPACE RESEARCH;

INTERGALACTIC MEDIA;

GALAXIES;

HYDROGEN;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; COLOR; COSMOS; DENITRIFICATION; MASS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SPACE; SPECTRUM;

EID: 0347719240     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02125     Document Type: Article

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