We present the discovery of neutral gas detected in both damped Ly
We use PHANGS–James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data to identify and classify 1271 compact 21
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- 10397512
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- The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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- 944
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- 2
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- Article No. L21
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- 2041-8205
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- DOI PREFIX: 10.3847
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