On the incidence of strong Mg II absorbers along gamma-ray burst sight lines

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 648, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Prochter, Gabriel E ^a   Prochaska, Jason X ^a   Chen, Hsiao Wen ^b   Bloom, Joshua S ^c   Dessauges Zavadsky, Miroslava ^d   Foley, Ryan J ^c   Lopez, Sebastian ^e   Pettini, Max ^f   Dupree, Andrea K ^g   Guhathakurta, P ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748920987     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/508061     Document Type: Article

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