Very blue UV-continuum slope β of low luminosity z∼7 galaxies from WFC3/IR: Evidence for extremely low metallicities?

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 708, Issue 2 PART 2, 2010, Pages

  Bouwens, R J ^a,b   Illingworth, G D ^a   Oesch, P A ^c   Trenti, M ^d   Stiavelli, M ^e   Carollo, C M ^c   Franx, M ^b   Van Dokkum, P G ^f   Labbe I ^g   Magee, D ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e STScI   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: high redshift

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949539081     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/708/2/L69     Document Type: Article

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