A dust-obscured massive maximum-starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34

Nature

Volumn 496, Issue 7445, 2013, Pages 329-333

  Riechers, Dominik A ^a,b   Bradford, C M ^a,c   Clements, D L ^d   Dowell, C D ^a,c   Perez Fournon I ^e,f   Ivison, R J ^g,h   Bridge, C ^a   Conley, A ⁱ   Fu, Hai ^j   Vieira, J D ^a   Wardlow, J ^j   Calanog, J ^j   Cooray, A ^a,j   Hurley, P ^k   Neri, R ^l   Kamenetzky, J ⁱ   Aguirre, J E ^m   Altieri, B ⁿ   Arumugam, V ^h   Benford, D J ^o   Bethermin M ^p,q   Bock, J ^a,c   Burgarella, D ^r   Cabrera Lavers, A ^e,f,s   Chapman, S C ^t   Cox, P ^l   Dunlop, J S ^h   Earle, L ⁱ   Farrah, D ^u   Ferrero, P ^e,f   Franceschini, A ^v   Gavazzi, R ^w   Glenn, J ⁱ   Gonzalez Solares, E A ^t   Gurwell, M A ^x   Halpern, M ^y   Hatziminaoglou, E ^z   Hyde, A ^d   Ibar, E ^g   Kovacs A ^a,aa   Krips, M ^l   Lupu, R E ^m   Maloney, P R ⁱ   Martinez Navajas, P ^e,f   Matsuhara, H ^ab   Murphy, E J ^a   Naylor, B J ^c   Nguyen, H T ^a,c   Oliver, S J ^k   Omont, A ^w   Page, M J ^ac   Petitpas, G ^x   Rangwala, N ⁱ   Roseboom, I G ^h,k   Scott, D ^y   Smith, A J ^k   Staguhn, J G ^o,ad   Streblyanska, A ^e,f   Thomson, A P ^h   Valtchanov, I ⁿ   Viero, M ^a   Wang, L ^k   Zemcov, M ^a,c   Zmuidzinas, J ^a,c   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^g UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^l IRAM   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁿ EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^o NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^q UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^r AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^s Grantecan S A Centro de Astrofísica de la Palma   (Spain)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^u VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^w INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^x HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^z EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^ab JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^ac UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ad JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COLOR; COSMOLOGY; DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; MASS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DUST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84876228946     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12050     Document Type: Article

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