On the perils of curve-of-growth analysis: Systematic abundance underestimates for the gas in gamma-ray burst host galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 650, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 272-280

  Prochaska, Jason X ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Intergalactic medium; ISM: abundances; ISM: kinematics and dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845867526     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/507126     Document Type: Article

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