We present a measurement of the intrinsic space density of intermediate-redshift (
We present the characteristics of 2 mm selected sources from the largest Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) blank-field contiguous survey conducted to date, the Mapping Obscuration to Reionization with ALMA (MORA) survey covering 184 arcmin2at 2 mm. Twelve of 13 detections above 5
- Award ID(s):
- 1814034
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10360991
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- DOI PREFIX: 10.3847
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- Journal Name:
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Volume:
- 923
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 0004-637X
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- Medium: X Size: Article No. 215
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- ["Article No. 215"]
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- National Science Foundation
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