Detection of an oxygen emission line from a high-redshift galaxy in the reionization epoch-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Detection of an oxygen emission line from a high-redshift galaxy in the reionization epoch

Published:2016-06-24 Issue:6293 Volume:352 Page:1559-1562
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Inoue Akio K.¹,Tamura Yoichi²,Matsuo Hiroshi³⁴,Mawatari Ken¹,Shimizu Ikkoh⁵,Shibuya Takatoshi⁶,Ota Kazuaki⁷⁸,Yoshida Naoki⁹¹⁰,Zackrisson Erik¹¹,Kashikawa Nobunari³⁴,Kohno Kotaro²,Umehata Hideki²¹²,Hatsukade Bunyo³,Iye Masanori³,Matsuda Yuichi³⁴,Okamoto Takashi¹³,Yamaguchi Yuki²

Affiliation:

1. College of General Education, Osaka Sangyo University, 3-1-1 Nakagaito, Daito, Osaka 574-8530, Japan.

2. Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-0015, Japan.

3. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan.

4. Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan.

5. Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.

6. Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan.

7. Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK.

8. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.

9. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.

10. Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8583, Japan.

11. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden.

12. European Southern Observatory, D-85748 Garching, Germany.

13. Department of Cosmosciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, N10 W8, Kitaku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan.

Abstract

Shining brightly in the early universe Galaxies that formed early in the history of the universe were powerful sources of ultraviolet radiation. This radiation ionized the surrounding intergalactic medium during the “epoch of reionization.” Inoue et al. detected atomic emission lines from a galaxy at high redshift—seen as it was when the universe was only ~5% of its current age (see the Perspective by De Breuck). Data from optical, infrared, and submillimeter observatories determined its gas and dust content and the amount of ultraviolet radiation it emitted. Studying similar galaxies in such a manner will allow astronomers to determine how the first galaxies formed, evolved, and influenced their surroundings. Science , this issue p. 1559 ; see also p. 1520

Funder

JSPS KAKENHI

JSPS Fellows

MEXT of Japan

Kavli Foundation

Swedish Research Council

Wenner-Gren FoundationS

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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