Continuous statistics of the Lyα forest at 0 < z < 1.6: The mean flux, flux distribution and autocorrelation from HST FOS spectra

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 376, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1227-1237

  Kirkman, David ^a   Tytler, David ^a   Lubin, Dan ^a   Charlton, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 525 Davey Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Intergalactic medium; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FORESTRY; METALS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROGRAPHS;

CONTINUUM LEVEL; COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM; LOWER DENSITY; POWER-LAW; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES; QUASI-STELLAR OBJECTS; RED SHIFT; SPECTRA'S;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 34147136560     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11502.x     Document Type: Article

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