A homogeneous sample of sub-damped Lyman α systems - I. Construction of the sample and chemical abundance measurements

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 345, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 447-479

  Dessauges Zavadsky, M ^a,c   Peroux C ^b,d   Kim, T S ^c,d   D'Odorico, S ^c   McMahon, R G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: high redshift; Quasars: absorption lines; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; GALAXIES; IONIZATION OF GASES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; ZINC COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL ABUNDANCE; COLUMN DENSITY; GALAXIES ABUNDANCES; GALAXIES:HIGH-REDSHIFT; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOMOGENEOUS SAMPLES; IONIZATION PARAMETER; QUASAR SPECTRA; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES; QUASARS:GENERAL;

IONS;

EID: 0142138654     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06949.x     Document Type: Article

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