A measurement of the temperature-density relation in the intergalactic medium using a new Lyα absorption-line fitting method

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 562, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 52-75

  Mcdonald, Patrick ^a,b   Miralda Escude, Jordi ^b,c   Rauch, Michael ^d   Sargent, Wallace L W ^e   Barlow, Tom A ^e   Cen, Renyue ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Alfred P Sloan Fellow   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: Observations; Intergalactic medium; Quasars: Absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041588513     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323426     Document Type: Article

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