I assume you're talking about UDFy-38135539 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDFy-38135539), with a redshift of z=8.6. It is not 13 Gly away, even though the light detected by Hubble's infrared camera was emitted about 13 billion years ago. Due to the metric expansion of space, the distance to that object is around 32 Gly (9710 Mpc according to http://www.bo.astro.it/~cappi/CosmoWidget.html).
that is one object with a suggested redshift of z=8.6. However, we do not know the distance of that object because not only was the image taken in the visible spectra (by Hubble), but the spectroscopic results re: it's distance have not been reproducible, and so the distance figure is challenged.
Fortunately, we have other galaxies, such as EGSY8p7 (z=8.68) have been imaged in the infrared, and as such, their distance confirmed.
However, you've just reiterated what GP has said. I maintain that nobody is denying that the object that has been observed is more distant than it was 13Gy ago, however, the light that we are currently observing emanated from an object that was only 13Gly away.
As I stated in my previous comment, the galaxies that we are presently observing are much different, and much farther away today, it's just going to take a lot of time for us to see what they look like today.
You're seeing a baby and claiming to have seen the senile crank that the baby potentially became over 19Gy. The baby we're currently observing may as well be dead.
If the article author is stating that 13Gly is the maximum distance anything can be from us, then the author is false. However, that's not what the author is saying. The author is saying we cannot see past 13Gly because the light has not arrived, and this is patently TRUE. The author makes NO claim about the current location of the objects.
the light that we are currently observing emanated
from an object that was only 13Gly away
Using http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/CosmoCalc.html, the light of an object at redshift z=8.68 was emitted 13.141 Gyr ago, 0.579 Gyr after the Big Bang. The co-moving distance (to where that object was) is 30.444 Gly, but at the time the light was emitted, it was only 3.145 Gly away (=30.444 Gly/(1+8.68)).
we cannot see past 13Gly because the light has not
arrived, and this is patently TRUE
We should be able to detect light from Population III stars, i.e., redshifts between z=20 and z=100, so about 13.540-13.704 Gyr in the past (about 0.016-0.180 Gyr since the Big Bang) and at a co-moving distance of about 35.851-42.045 Gly (or distances from us in the past of 0.416-1.707 Gly).
