Dust-free quasars in the early Universe

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7287, 2010, Pages 380-383

  Jiang, Linhua ^a   Fan, Xiaohui ^a,b   Brandt, W N ^c   Carilli, Chris L ^d   Egami, Eiichi ^a   Hines, Dean C ^e   Kurk, Jaron D ^b,f   Richards, Gordon T ^g   Shen, Yue ^h   Strauss, Michael A ⁱ   Vestergaard, Marianne ^a,j   Walter, Fabian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^g DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

ⁱ PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; DUST; LUMINANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION;

EID: 77949731480     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08877     Document Type: Article

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