A galaxy rapidly forming stars 700 million years after the Big Bang at redshift 7.51

Nature

Volumn 502, Issue 7472, 2013, Pages 524-527

  Finkelstein, S L ^a   Papovich, C ^b   Dickinson, M ^c   Song, M ^a   Tilvi, V ^b   Koekemoer, A M ^d   Finkelstein, K D ^a   Mobasher, B ^e   Ferguson, H C ^d   Giavalisco, M ^f   Reddy, N ^e   Ashby, M L N ^g   Dekel, A ^h   Fazio, G G ^g   Fontana, A ⁱ   Grogin, N A ^d   Huang, J S ^g   Kocevski, D ^j   Rafelski, M ^k   Weiner, B J ^l   Willner, S P ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

ⁱ INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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Author keywords

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OXYGEN;

COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; PHOTOMETER; SPECTROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; LUMINANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84886816378     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12657     Document Type: Article

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