Probing the time-variation of the fine-structure constant: Results based on SI IV doublets from a UVES sample

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 430, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-58

  Chand, H ^a   Petitjean, P ^b,c   Srianand, R ^a   Aracil, B ^b,d  

^a INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IONIZATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; SILICON; VECTORS;

ALKALI DOUBLET METHOD; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES; REDSHIFT RANGE;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 12844278844     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20041186     Document Type: Article

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