Far away secrets unveiled - Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes 鈥渟py鈥� one of the youngest galaxies in the Universe
Press release EPFL + UniGE (7 february 2014)
Even the most distant galaxies cannot escape astronomers鈥� reach. The images obtained thanks to the Hubble and聽 Spitzer space telescopes have contributed to a better understanding of the process of galaxy genesis. A team made聽 of members from EPFL and the AV短视频, associated with French, American and Spanish researchers, reports its initial findings.
Image of the distant galaxy, named Y1, disovered behind the galaxy cluster Abell 2744.聽 The photometric redshift of the galaxy is z~8.0, placing it at approximately 13 billion lightyears. The galaxy is thus seen as it was 650 million years after the Big Bang, providing a unique view on galaxy formation in the early Universe, during the so-called phase of cosmic reionization.
- Animations: Travel to the distant galaxy discovered ( [2 MB], )
- (pdf, Letter to appear in Astronomy & Astrophysics):
"The first Frontier Fields cluster: 4.5 micron excess in a z ~ 8 galaxy candidate in Abell 2744", N. Laporte et al., 2014, A&A, in press - Links to other press releases:
Associated groups/researchers :
- Daniel SCHAERER - UniGE: ,
- Hakim ATEK, Jean-Paul KNEIB - EPFL
- Nicolas LAPORTE, A. Streblyanska, Ismael P茅rez-Fournon, P. Martinez-Navajas, R. Marques-Chaves -IAC
- Fr茅d茅ric BOONE, Roser Pell贸 -IRAP
- Johan RICHARD - CRAL
- Benjamin CLEMENT, Eiichi EGAMI - Tucson
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