Metallicity of the intergalactic medium using pixel statistics. III. Silicon

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 602, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 38-50

  Aguirre, Anthony ^a   Schaye, Joop ^b   Kim, Tae Sun ^c,d   Theuns, Tom ^e,f   Rauch, Michael ^g   Sargent, Wallace L W ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^g CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: miscellaneous; Galaxies: formation; Intergalactic medium; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842431660     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380961     Document Type: Article

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