A gravitationally lensed water maser in the early Universe

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7224, 2008, Pages 927-929

  Impellizzeri, C M Violette ^a   McKean, John P ^a   Castangia, Paola ^a,b   Roy, Alan L ^a   Henkel, Christian ^a   Brunthaler, Andreas ^a   Wucknitz, Olaf ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; GRAVITY; LUMINESCENCE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMOS; GAS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; WATER MASER;

EID: 57749209428     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07544     Document Type: Article

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