Testing cosmological variability of the proton-to-electron mass ratio using the spectrum of PKS 0528-250

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 505, Issue 2 PART I, 1998, Pages 523-528

  Potekhin, Alexander Y ^a,b,c,d,e   Ivanchik, Alexander V ^a,b,c,d,e   Varshalovich, Dmitry A ^a,b,c,d,e   Lanzetta, Kenneth M ^a,b,c,d,e   Baldwin, Jack A ^a,b,c,d,e   Williger, Gerard M ^a,b,c,d,e   Carswell, R F ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CERRO TOLOLO INTER AMERICAN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic data; Cosmology: observations; Elementary particles; Quasars: absorption lines; Quasars: individual (PKS 0528 250)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645570273     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/306211     Document Type: Article

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