The rapid formation of a large rotating disk galaxy three billion years after the Big Bang

Nature

Volumn 442, Issue 7104, 2006, Pages 786-789

  Genzel, R ^a,b   Tacconi, L J ^a   Eisenhauer, F ^a   Forster Schreiber N M ^a   Cimatti, A ^a,c   Daddi, E ^d   Bouche N ^a   Davies, R ^a   Lehnert, M D ^a   Lutz, D ^a   Nesvadba, N ^a   Verma, A ^a   Abuter, R ^a   Shapiro, K ^b   Sternberg, A ^e   Renzini, A ^f   Kong, X ^g   Arimoto, N ^h   Mignoli, M ⁱ  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI ARCETRI   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI PADOVA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^h NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

ⁱ INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SPACE RESEARCH; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

HIGH-ANGULAR-RESOLUTION; ROTATING DISK GALAXY; STELLAR AGES; UNIVERSE;

GALAXIES;

ASTRONOMY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 33747495913     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05052     Document Type: Article

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