Early gas stripping as the origin of the darkest galaxies in the Universe

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7129, 2007, Pages 738-740

  Mayer, L ^a,b   Kazantzidis, S ^c,d   Mastropietro, C ^e   Wadsley, J ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RAY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GAS; PLANETARY SATELLITE;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; GAS; GAS ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; LIGHT; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPACE; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANDROMEDA; DRACO;

EID: 33847123501     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05552     Document Type: Article

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