The fine-structure constant: A new observational limit on its cosmological variation and some theoretical consequences

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 343, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 439-445

  Ivanchik, A V ^a   Potekhin, A Y ^a   Varshalovich, D A ^a  

^a IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cosmology: theory; Galaxies: quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 4244156324     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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