High velocity dispersion in a rare grand-design spiral galaxy at redshift z = 2.18

Nature

Volumn 487, Issue 7407, 2012, Pages 338-340

  Law, David R ^a   Shapley, Alice E ^b   Steidel, Charles C ^c   Reddy, Naveen A ^d   Christensen, Charlotte R ^e   Erb, Dawn K ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; DISPERSION; INSTRUMENTATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REACTION KINETICS; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DISPERSION; KINEMATICS; KINETICS; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

EID: 84863907187     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11256     Document Type: Article

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