The opacity of the lyα forest and implications for Ωb and the ionizing background

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 489, Issue 1 PART I, 1997, Pages 7-20

  Rauch, Michael ^a   Miralda Escudé, Jordi ^b,c   Sargent, Wallace L W ^a   Barlow, Tom A ^a   Weinberg, David H ^d   Hernquist, Lars ^e   Katz, Neal ^f,g   Cen, Renyue ^h   Ostriker, Jeremiah P ^h  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^h PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergalactic medium; Quasars: absorption lines; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003067092     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/304765     Document Type: Article

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