A high stellar velocity dispersion for a compact massive galaxy at redshift z = 2.186

Nature

Volumn 460, Issue 7256, 2009, Pages 717-719

  Van Dokkum, Pieter G ^a   Kriek, Mariska ^b   Franx, Marijn ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; KINEMATICS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DYNAMICS; KINEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

EID: 68449105084     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08220     Document Type: Article

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