Discovery of a transient U-band dropout in a Lyman break survey: A tidally disrupted star at z = 3.3?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 612, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 690-697

  Stern, Daniel ^a   Van Dokkum, P G ^b   Nugent, Peter ^c   Sand, D J ^b   Ellis, R S ^b   Sullivan, Mark ^d   Bloom, J S ^e   Frail, D A ^b,f   Kneib, J P ^g   Koopmans, L V E ^b,h   Treu, Tommaso ^b,i  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g IRAP   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: individual (A267); Galaxies: high redshift; Stars: flare; Supernovae: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 7544249291     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422744     Document Type: Review

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