ALMA reveals constituent of a galaxy at 12.4 billion light-years away
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 15:00
in Astronomy & Space
An international research team, led by Associate Professor Tohru Nagao from Kyoto University, and including researchers from Japan and Europe, has observed a "submillimeter galaxy" located about 12.4 billion light-years away using ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), and has successfully detected an emission line from nitrogen contained in that galaxy.