Voigt profile fitting to quasar absorption lines: An analytic approximation to the Voigt-Hjerting function

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 369, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2025-2035

  García, Thorsten Tepper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Line: formation; Line: identification; Line: profiles; Methods: analytical quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS;

ANALYTIC APPROXIMATION; LINE FORMATIONS; LINE: PROFILES; LINE:IDENTIFICATION; METHOD: ANALYTICAL QUASAR: ABSORPTION LINE; METHODS:ANALYTICAL; PROFILE FITTING; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES; SIMPLE++; VOIGT PROFILE;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 33745539420     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10450.x     Document Type: Article

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