A highly magnified candidate for a young galaxy seen when the Universe was ∼500 Myr old

Wei Zheng, Marc Postman , Adi Zitrin, John Moustakas , Xinwen Shu, Stephanie Jouvel , Ole Høst , Alberto Molino, Larry Bradley, Dan Coe, Leonidas A. Moustakas , Mauricio Carrasco , Holland Ford, Narciso Benı́tez , Tod R. Lauer , Stella Seitz, Rychard Bouwens , Anton Koekemoer , Elinor Medezinski , Matthias Bartelmann , Tom Broadhurst , Megan Donahue , Claudio Grillo, Leopoldo Infante, Saurabh W. Jha , Daniel D. Kelson, Ofer Lahav, Doron Lemze, Peter Melchior , Massimo Meneghetti , Julian Merten, Mario Nonino, Sara Ogaz , Piero Rosati , Keiichi Umetsu, Arjen van der Wel

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[51]  Accepted to Ap.J. Preprint typeset using L ATEX style emulateapj v. 10/09/06 A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF DEPARTURES FROM CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM IN THE ATMOSPHERES OF SUBSTELLAR MASS OBJECTS , 2022 .