Limits on the time variation of the electromagnetic fine-structure constant in the low energy limit from absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

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

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

^b CNRS   (France)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; ELECTRONS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; TELESCOPES;

COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FINE-STRUCTURE CONSTANTS; QUASARS;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 2342535673     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.121302     Document Type: Article

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