A galaxy at a redshift z = 6.96

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7108, 2006, Pages 186-188

  Iye, Masanori ^a,b,c   Ota, Kazuaki ^b   Kashikawa, Nobunari ^a   Furusawa, Hisanori ^a   Hashimoto, Tetsuya ^b   Hattori, Takashi ^a   Matsuda, Yuichi ^d   Morokuma, Tomoki ^b   Ouchi, Masami ^e   Shimasaku, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVES; PHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GALAXY FORMATION; REDSHIFTS; STAR FORMATION; UNIVERSE;

GALAXIES;

COOLING; COSMIC RAY; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; PHOTOMETER; SPECTROSCOPY; SUNSPOT;

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUN;

EID: 33748667490     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05104     Document Type: Article

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