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Recipe for regularity

A detailed astrophysical model has been laid out that not only reproduces the far-infrared–radio correlation for galaxies that are actively forming stars, but also predicts how the correlation is modified at high redshift.

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Figure 1: An ultra-luminous infrared galaxy.

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Zweibel, E. Recipe for regularity. Nature 502, 453–454 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502453a

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