Chandra ACIS-S observations of three quasars with low-redshift damped Lyα absorption: Constraints on the cosmic neutral gas-phase metallicity at redshift z ≈ 0.4

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 590, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 730-739

  Turnshek, David A ^a   Rao, Sandhya M ^a   Ptak, Andrew F ^b   Griffiths, Richard E ^c   Monier, Eric M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: evolution; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043157429     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375019     Document Type: Article

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