Damped Lyman α systems and disc galaxies: Number density, column density distribution and gas density

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-140

  Boissier, Samuel ^a   Péroux, Céline ^a,b   Pettini, Max ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Evolution; Galaxies: Formation; Galaxies: Spiral; Quasars: Absorption lines

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GALAXIES;

COLUMN DENSITY; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DISK GALAXIES; DISTRIBUTION DENSITY; GALAXIES: SPIRALS; GALAXY EVOLUTION; GALAXY FORMATIONS; GAS DENSITY; NUMBER DENSITY; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES;

DENSITY OF GASES;

EID: 0141992617     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06023.x     Document Type: Article

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