Significant primordial star formation at redshifts z ≈ 3-4

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7083, 2006, Pages 501-504

  Jimenez, Raul ^a   Haiman, Zoltan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HELIUM; IONIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EMISSION LINES; LYMAN BREAK GALAXIES (LBG); MICROMIXING;

GALAXIES;

HELIUM; METAL DERIVATIVE;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 33645307383     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04580     Document Type: Article

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