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METALLICITY GRADIENT OF A LENSED FACE-ON SPIRAL GALAXY AT REDSHIFT 1.49

Tiantian Yuan, Lisa J. Kewley, A. M. Swinbank, Johan Richard, Rachael Livermore

The Astrophysical Journal Letters · 2011 · 131 citations · 43 references

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We present the first metallicity gradient measurement for a grand-design face-on spiral galaxy at z ∼ 1.5. This galaxy has been magnified by a factor of 22× by a massive, X-ray luminous galaxy cluster MACSJ1149.5+2223 at z = 0.544. Using the Laser Guid

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