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Glazebrook K, Schreiber C, Labbé I, et al. A massive, quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 3.717. Nature. 2017;544(7648):71-74doi: 10.1038/nature21680.
Glazebrook, K., Schreiber, C., Labbé, I., Nanayakkara, T., Kacprzak, G. G., Oesch, P. A., Papovich, C., Spitler, L. R., Straatman, C. M., Tran, K. H., & Yuan, T. (2017). A massive, quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 3.717. Nature, 544(7648), 71-74. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21680
Glazebrook, Karl, et al. "A massive, quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 3.717." Nature vol. 544,7648 (2017): 71-74. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature21680
Glazebrook K, Schreiber C, Labbé I, Nanayakkara T, Kacprzak GG, Oesch PA, Papovich C, Spitler LR, Straatman CM, Tran KH, Yuan T. A massive, quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 3.717. Nature. 2017 Apr 05;544(7648):71-74. doi: 10.1038/nature21680. PMID: 28382981.
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Nature. 2017 Apr 05;544(7648):71-74. doi: 10.1038/nature21680.

A massive, quiescent galaxy at a redshift of 3.717.

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Karl Glazebrook, Corentin Schreiber, Ivo Labbé, Themiya Nanayakkara, Glenn G Kacprzak, Pascal A Oesch, Casey Papovich, Lee R Spitler, Caroline M S Straatman, Kim-Vy H Tran, Tiantian Yuan

Affiliations

  1. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia.
  2. Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
  3. Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva, Chemin des Maillettes 51, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland.
  4. George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA.
  5. Macquarie Research Centre for Astronomy, Astrophysics and Astrophotonics, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.
  6. Australian Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 915, North Ryde, New South Wales 1670, Australia.
  7. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany.
  8. Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, Australian Capital Territory 2611, Australia.

PMID: 28382981 DOI: 10.1038/nature21680

Abstract

Finding massive galaxies that stopped forming stars in the early Universe presents an observational challenge because their rest-frame ultraviolet emission is negligible and they can only be reliably identified by extremely deep near-infrared surveys. These surveys have revealed the presence of massive, quiescent early-type galaxies appearing as early as redshift z ≈ 2, an epoch three billion years after the Big Bang. Their age and formation processes have now been explained by an improved generation of galaxy-formation models, in which they form rapidly at z ≈ 3-4, consistent with the typical masses and ages derived from their observations. Deeper surveys have reported evidence for populations of massive, quiescent galaxies at even higher redshifts and earlier times, using coarsely sampled photometry. However, these early, massive, quiescent galaxies are not predicted by the latest generation of theoretical models. Here we report the spectroscopic confirmation of one such galaxy at redshift z = 3.717, with a stellar mass of 1.7 × 10

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