High-Redshift Galaxies: Light from the Early Universe

by Immo Appenzeller

Book Overview

The high-redshift galaxies became a distinct research ?eld during the ?nal decade of the20thcentury. AtthattimetheLyman-breaktechniquemadeitpossibletoidentify signi'cant samples of such objects, and the new generation of 8 to 10-m telescopes resulted in ?rst good spectroscopic data. Today the high-redshift galaxies have developed into one of the important topics of astrophysics, accounting for about 5-10% of the publications in the major scienti'c...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540758232
• ISBN13: 9783540758235
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"