Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3

Nature

Volumn 464, Issue 7289, 2010, Pages 733-736

  Swinbank, A M ^a   Smail, I ^a   Longmore, S ^b   Harris, A I ^c   Baker, A J ^d   De Breuck, C ^e   Richard, J ^a   Edge, A C ^a   Ivison, R J ^f   Blundell, R ^b   Coppin, K E K ^a   Cox, P ^g   Gurwell, M ^b   Hainline, L J ^c   Krips, M ^g   Lundgren, A ^h   Neri, R ^g   Siana, B ⁱ   Siringo, G ^h   Stark, D P ^j   Wilner, D ^b   Younger, J D ^k   more..

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

^d State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^f UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^g IRAM   (France)

^h EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^k INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST; ENERGETICS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINESCENCE;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; GAS; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 77950461009     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08880     Document Type: Article

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