Molecular gas and dust around a radio-quiet quasar at redshift 4.7
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- 1 August 1996
Abstract
We report the detection of emission from dust and carbon monoxide in the radio-quiet quasar BR1202--0725 at redshift z=4.7. Maps of these emissions reveal two objects separated by a few arc seconds, which could indicate either the presence of a companion to the quasar or gravitational lensing of the quasar itself. Regardless of the precise interpretation of the maps, the detection of carbon monoxide confirms the presence of a large mass of molecular gas in one of the most distant galaxies known, and shows that conditions conducive to huge bursts of star formation existed in the early Universe.Keywords
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- Version 1, 1996-08-01, ArXiv
- Published version: Nature, 382 (6590), 428.
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