Research report 2014 - Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Pinpointing the most fertile galaxies in the universe
Authors
Hodge, Jacqueline A.; Walter, Fabian; Decarli, Roberto; Rix, Hans-Walter; Schinnerer, Eva
Departments
Galaxien und Kosmologie
Summary
Pinpointing the positions of more than 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies with the compound telescope ALMA clears up a mystery about these objects' observed productivity – and shows that previous studies had frequently mis-identified such galaxies.