Quasars probing quasars. I. Optically thick absorbers near luminous quasars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 651, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 61-83

  Hennawi, Joseph F ^a,b   Prochaska, Jason X ^c   Burles, Scott ^d   Strauss, Michael A ^b   Richards, Gordon T ^e   Schlegel, David J ^f   Fan, Xiaohui ^g   Schneider, Donald P ^h   Zakamska, Nadia L ⁱ   Oguri, Masamune ^b   Gunn, James E ^b   Lupton, Robert H ^b   Brinkmann, Jon ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

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

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^j APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Cosmology: theory; Intergalactic medium; Quasars: absorption lines; Quasars: general; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845720310     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507069     Document Type: Article

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