Measurability of kinetic temperature from metal absorption-line spectra formed in chaotic media

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 517, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 609-621

  Levshakov, Sergei A ^a   Takahara, Fumio ^b   Agafonova, Irina I ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Quasars: absorption lines; Quasars: individual (1937 1009); Radiative transfer; Ultraviolet: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033145267     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/307223     Document Type: Article

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