Supersolar super-Lyman limit systems

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 648, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Prochaska, Jason X ^a,b   O'Meara, John M ^c   Herbert Fort, Stéphane ^b,d   Burles, Scott ^c   Prochter, Gabriel E ^a,b   Bernstein, Rebecca A ^e  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750552748     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507867     Document Type: Article

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