Molecular hydrogen in high-redshift damped Lyman-α systems: The VLT/UVES database

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 481, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 327-336

  Noterdaeme, P ^a,b   Ledoux, C ^a   Petitjean, P ^b   Srianand, R ^c  

^a EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: ISM; Galaxies: quasars: absorption lines; ISM: molecules

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; COSMOLOGY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN; SPACE TELESCOPES;

COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS; GALAXIES: ISM; GALAXIES: QUASARS: ABSORPTION LINES; ISM: MOLECULES; MOLECULAR FRACTIONS; ULTRAVIOLET AND VISUAL ECHELLE SPECTROGRAPH (UVES);

GALAXIES;

EID: 41449111606     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20078780     Document Type: Article

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