A high yield of new sightlines for the study of intergalactic helium: Far-uv-bright quasars from the SDSS, GALEX, and HST

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 690, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1181-1192

  Syphers, David ^a   Anderson, Scott F ^a   Zheng, Wei ^b   Haggard, Daryl ^a   Meiksin, Avery ^c   Chiu, Kuenley ^d   Hogan, Craig ^a   Schneider, Donald P ^e   York, Donald G ^f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d ANGLO AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY   (Australia)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogs; Galaxies: active; Intergalactic medium; Only material: machine; Quasars: general; Readable tables; Surveys; Ultraviolet: galaxies Online

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549168793     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/690/2/1181     Document Type: Article

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