Dust biasing of damped Lyman alpha systems: A Bayesian analysis

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 393, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 557-568

  Pontzen, Andrew ^a   Pettini, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GALAXIES; METALS; SURVEYS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BAYESIAN PARAMETER ESTIMATION; COLUMN DENSITY; METALLICITIES; OPTICAL-; QUASARS ABSORPTION LINES; RADIO AND OPTICAL; RED-SHIFTED; SIMPLE++; SPECTRA'S;

DUST;

EID: 60249099290     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14193.x     Document Type: Article

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