The formation and assembly of a typical star-forming galaxy at redshift z ≈ 3

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7214, 2008, Pages 775-777

  Stark, Daniel P ^a   Swinbank, A Mark ^b   Ellis, Richard S ^a   Dye, Simon ^c   Smail, Ian R ^b   Richard, Johan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; ROTATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 53649100256     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07294     Document Type: Article

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