The onset of star formation 250 million years after the Big Bang
Observation of the emission line of doubly ionized oxygen at a redshift of 9.1096 reveals that star formation began at a redshift of about 15, around 250 million years after the Big Bang.
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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16 May 2018
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Nature
Year: 2018, Volume: 557, Issue: 7705, Pages: 392-395 |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41586-018-0117-z |
| Online Access: | Verlag, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0117-z Verlag: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0117-z 
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| Author Notes: | Takuya Hashimoto, Nicolas Laporte, Ken Mawatari, Richard S. Ellis, Akio K. Inoue, Erik Zackrisson, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Wei Zheng, Yoichi Tamura, Franz E. Bauer, Thomas Fletcher, Yuichi Harikane, Bunyo Hatsukade, Natsuki H. Hayatsu, Yuichi Matsuda, Hiroshi Matsuo, Takashi Okamoto, Masami Ouchi, Roser Pelló, Claes-Erik Rydberg, Ikkoh Shimizu, Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Hideki Umehata, Naoki Yoshida |
| Summary: | Observation of the emission line of doubly ionized oxygen at a redshift of 9.1096 reveals that star formation began at a redshift of about 15, around 250 million years after the Big Bang. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 16.10.2019 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1476-4687 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41586-018-0117-z |