Metal abundances at z < 1.5: Fresh clues to the chemical enrichment history of damped Lyα systems

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 510, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 576-589

  Pettini, Max ^a   Ellison, Sara L ^b   Steidel, Charles C ^c   Bowen, David V ^d  

^a ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: evolution; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001115793     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/306635     Document Type: Article

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