A search for molecules in damped Lyman-alpha absorbers occulting millimetre-loud quasars

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 394, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 763-768

  Curran, S J ^a   Murphy, M T ^a   Webb, J K ^a   Rantakyro F ^b,c   Johansson, L E B ^d   Nikolic S ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cosmology: early Universe; Cosmology: observations; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BANDWIDTH; DAMPING; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; TELESCOPES;

QUASARS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0036845886     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20021231     Document Type: Article

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