A magnified young galaxy from about 500 million years after the Big Bang

Nature

Volumn 489, Issue 7416, 2012, Pages 406-408

  Zheng, Wei ^a   Postman, Marc ^b   Zitrin, Adi ^c   Moustakas, John ^d   Shu, Xinwen ^e   Jouvel, Stephanie ^f,g   Høst, Ole ^f   Molino, Alberto ^h   Bradley, Larry ^b   Coe, Dan ^b   Moustakas, Leonidas A ⁱ   Carrasco, Mauricio ^j   Ford, Holland ^a   Benítez, Narciso ^h   Lauer, Tod R ^k   Seitz, Stella ^l   Bouwens, Rychard ^m   Koekemoer, Anton ^b   Medezinski, Elinor ^a   Bartelmann, Matthias ^c   Broadhurst, Tom ^n,o   Donahue, Megan ^p   Grillo, Claudio ^q   Infante, Leopoldo ^j   Jha, Saurabh W ^r   Kelson, Daniel D ^s   Lahav, Ofer ^f   Lemze, Doron ^a   Melchior, Peter ^t   Meneghetti, Massimo ^u   Merten, Julian ⁱ   Nonino, Mario ^v   Ogaz, Sara ^b   Rosati, Piero ^w   Umetsu, Keiichi ^x   Van Der Wel, Arjen ^y   more..

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d SIENA COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DE L ESPAI CSIC IEEC   (Spain)

^h INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^k NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^m LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^o BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^p MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^r RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^t OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^u INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^v INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^w EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^x INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^y MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; IMAGE; IONIZATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; GRAVITY; IONIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELESCOPE;

EID: 84866493226     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11446     Document Type: Article

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