Testing cosmological models with a Lya forest statistic: The high end of the optical depth distribution

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 479, Issue 2, 1997, Pages L85-L88

  Cen, Renyue ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorption lines; Cosmology; Hydrodynamics; Intergalactic medium; Large scale structure of universe; Quasars; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041147393     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/310587/pdf     Document Type: Article

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