A new measurement of the primordial abundance of deuterium: Toward convergence with the baryon density from the cosmic microwave background?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 560, Issue 1 PART 1, 2001, Pages 41-48

  Pettini, Max ^a   Bowen, David V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, abundances; Quasars: absorption lines; Quasars: individual (Q2206 199)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035841097     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/322510     Document Type: Article

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