The DOI matches its Crossref record; 20 of the 20 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
A supernova origin for dust in a high-redshift quasar
Open accessAbstract
Interstellar dust plays a crucial role in the evolution of the Universe by assisting the formation of molecules, by triggering the formation of the first low-mass stars, and by absorbing stellar ultraviolet–optical light and subsequently re-emitting it at infrared/millimetre wavelengths. Dust is thought to be produced predominantly in the envelopes of evolved (age >1 Gyr), low-mass stars. This picture has, however, recently been brought into question by the discovery of large masses of dust in the host galaxies of quasars at redshift z > 6, when the age of the Universe was less than 1 Gyr. Theoretical studies, corroborated by observations of nearby supernova remnants, have suggested that supernovae provide a fast and efficient dust formation environment in the early Universe. Here we report infrared observations of a quasar at redshift 6.2, which are used to obtain directly its dust extinction curve. We then show that such a curve is in excellent agreement with supernova dust models. This result demonstrates a supernova origin for dust in this high-redshift quasar, from which we infer that most of the dust at high redshifts probably has the same origin.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The Evolution and Explosion of Massive Stars. II. Explosive Hydrodynamics and Nucleosynthesis
Woosley, S. E., & Weaver, T. A. (1995) · The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · doi:10.1086/192237 · Cited by 3,761
The evolution and explosion of massive stars
Woosley, S. E., Heger, A., & Weaver, T. A. (2002) · Reviews of Modern Physics · doi:10.1103/revmodphys.74.1015 · Cited by 2,247
Dust in the Galactic Environment
Whittet, D. C. B. (1992) · Institute of Physics eBooks · doi:10.1887/0750306246 · Cited by 719
Zubko, V. G., Mennella, V., Colangeli, L., & Bussoletti, E. (1996) · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · doi:10.1093/mnras/282.4.1321 · Cited by 580
Dust formation in primordial Type II supernovae
Todini, P., & Ferrara, A. (2001) · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04486.x · Cited by 561
Self-citationEarly star formation and the evolution of the stellar initial mass function in galaxies
Larson, R. B. (1998) · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.02045.x · Cited by 455
Dust in the Early Universe: Dust Formation in the Ejecta of Population III Supernovae
Nozawa, T., Kozasa, T., Umeda, H., Maeda, K., & NOMOTO, K. (2003) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1086/379011 · Cited by 417
Red and Reddened Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Richards, G. T., Hall, P. B., Vanden Berk, D. E., Strauss, M. A., Schneider, D. P., Weinstein, M. A., Reichard, T. A., York, D. G., Knapp, G. R., Fan, X., et al. (2003) · The Astronomical Journal · doi:10.1086/377014 · Cited by 394
Dust emission from the most distant quasars
Bertoldi, F., Carilli, C. L., Cox, P., Fan, X., Strauss, M. A., Beelen, A., Omont, A., & Zylka, R. (2003) · Astronomy and Astrophysics · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20030710 · Cited by 354
Continuum and Emission-Line Properties of Broad Absorption Line Quasars
Reichard, T. A., Richards, G. T., Hall, P. B., Schneider, D. P., Vanden Berk, D. E., Fan, X., York, D. G., Knapp, G. R., & Brinkmann, J. (2003) · The Astronomical Journal · doi:10.1086/379293 · Cited by 267
Cited by
Cool outflows in galaxies and their implications
Veilleux, S., Maiolino, R., Bolatto, A. D., & Aalto, S. (2020) · The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review · doi:10.1007/s00159-019-0121-9 · Cited by 466
Self-citationBouwens, R. J., Illingworth, G. D., Oesch, P. A., Labbé, I., van Dokkum, P. G., Trenti, M., Franx, M., Smit, R., Gonzalez, V., & Magee, D. (2014) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1088/0004-637x/793/2/115 · Cited by 406
Dust formation and survival in supernova ejecta
Bianchi, S., & Schneider, R. (2007) · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11829.x · Cited by 401
Self-citationSTAR FORMATION AND GAS KINEMATICS OF QUASAR HOST GALAXIES AT z∼ 6: NEW INSIGHTS FROM ALMA
Wang, R., Wagg, J., Carilli, C. L., Walter, F., Lentati, L., Fan, X., Riechers, D. A., Bertoldi, F., Narayanan, D., Strauss, M. A., et al. (2013) · The Astrophysical Journal · doi:10.1088/0004-637x/773/1/44 · Cited by 393
JADES: The diverse population of infant black holes at 4 < z < 11: Merging, tiny, poor, but mighty
Maiolino, R., Scholtz, J., Curtis-Lake, E., Carniani, S., Baker, W., de Graaff, A., Tacchella, S., Übler, H., D’Eugenio, F., Witstok, J., et al. (2024) · Astronomy & Astrophysics · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347640 · Cited by 373
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Maiolino, R., Schneider, R., Oliva, E., Bianchi, S., Ferrara, A., Mannucci, F., Pedani, M., & Roca Sogorb, M.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2004-09
- Volume
- 431
- Issue
- 7008
- Pages
- 533-535
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2055437312
- Cited by
- 276
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 11.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: A supernova origin for dust in a high-redshift quasar. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1038/nature02930
- The paper
- Maiolino, R., Schneider, R., Oliva, E., Bianchi, S., Ferrara, A., Mannucci, F., Pedani, M., & Roca Sogorb, M. (2004). A supernova origin for dust in a high-redshift quasar. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature02930
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
