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NATURE
卷 519, 期 7543, 页码 327-+出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nature14164
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资金
- Danish National Research Foundation
- EU under a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship [PIEF-GA-2010-274117]
- Swedish Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- European Research Council starting grant
- CALENDS
- Career Integration Grant [294074]
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) [267251]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
Candidates for the modest galaxies that formed most of the stars in the early Universe, at redshifts z> 7, have been found in large numbers with extremely deep restframe-ultraviolet imagingl. But it has proved difficult for existing spectrographs to characterize them using their ultraviolet light(2-4). The detailed properties of these galaxies could be measured from dust and cool gas emission at far-infrared wavelengths if the galaxies have become sufficiently enriched in dust and metals. So far, however, the most distant galaxy discovered via its ultraviolet emission and subsequently detected in dust emission is only at z = 3.2 (ref. 5), and recent results have cast doubt on whether dust and molecules can be found in typical galaxies at z >= 7(6-8). Here we report thermal dust emission from an archetypal early Universe star-forming galaxy, A1689-zDI. We detect its stellar continuum in spectroscopy and determine its redshift to be z = 7.5 +/- 0.2 from a spectroscopic detection of the Lyman-a break. A1689-zD1 is representative of the star-forming population during the epoch of reionization(9), with a total star-formation rate of about 12 solar masses per year. The galaxy is highly evolved: it has a large stellar mass and is heavily enriched in dust, with a dust-to-gas ratio close to that of the Milky Way. Dusty, evolved galaxies are thus present among the fainter star-forming population at z> 7.
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