Evidence for reionization at z ∼ 6: Detection of a gunn-peterson trough in a z = 6.28 quasar

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 2850-2857

  Becker, Robert H ^a,b   Fan, Xiaohui ^c   White, Richard L ^d   Strauss, Michael A ^e   Narayanan, Vijay K ^e   Lupton, Robert H ^e   Gunn, James E ^e   Annis, James ^f   Bahcall, Neta A ^e   Brinkmann, J ^g   Connolly, A J ^h   Csabai, István ^i,j   Czarapata, Paul C ^f   Doi, Mamoru ^k   Heckman, Timothy M ⁱ   Hennessy, G S ^l   Ivezić, Željko ^e   Knapp, G R ^e   Lamb, Don Q ^m   Mckay, Timothy A ⁿ   Munn, Jeffrey A ^o   Nash, Thomas ^f   Nichol, Robert ^p   Pier, Jeffrey R ^o   Richards, Gordon T ^q   Schneider, Donald P ^q   Stoughton, Chris ^f   Szalay, Alexander S ⁱ   Thakar, Aniruddha R ⁱ   York, D G ^m,r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^g APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^l US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^o FLAGSTAFF STATION   (United States)

^p CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: formation; Quasars: absorption lines; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042117667     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/324231     Document Type: Article

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