Deuterium abundance in the most metal-poor damped Lyman alpha system: Converging on Ωb,0h2

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1499-1510

  Pettini, Max ^a   Zych, Berkeley J ^a   Murphy, Michael T ^a,b   Lewis, Antony ^a   Steidel, Charles C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

SUPERNOVAE;

COSMOLOGY OBSERVATIONS; DATAPOINTS; ECHELLE; EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY; HIGH QUALITY; LYMAN SERIES; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES; SERIES TRANSITIONS; SPECTRA'S; WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE;

DEUTERIUM;

EID: 57649108584     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13921.x     Document Type: Article

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