A candidate redshift z≈10 galaxy and rapid changes in that population at an age of 500 Myr

Nature

Volumn 469, Issue 7331, 2011, Pages 504-507

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; LUMINESCENCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUATERNARY; VOLUME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; GAMMA RADIATION; IONIZATION; LUMINANCE; OBSERVATION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79251562878     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09717     Document Type: Article

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