A high abundance of massive galaxies 3-6 billion years after the Big Bang

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 6996, 2004, Pages 181-184

  Glazebrook, Karl ^a   Abraham, Roberto G ^b   McCarthy, Pahlek J ^c   Savaglio, Sandra ^a   Chen, Hsiao Wen ^d   Crampton, David ^e   Mirowinski, Rick ^e   Jørgensen, Inger ^f   Roth, Kathy ^f   Hook, Isobel ^g   Marzke, Ronald O ^h   Carlberg, R G ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^f GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; GALAXIES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BIG BANG THEORY; REDSHIFTS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; MASS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 3142545742     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02667     Document Type: Article

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