Casting light on the "anomalous" statistics of Mg II absorbers toward gamma-ray burst afterglows: The incidence of weak systems

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 706, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1309-1315

  Tejos, Nicolas ^a   Lopez, Sebastian ^a   Prochaska, J Xavier ^b   Bloom, Joshua S ^c   Chen, Hsiao Wen ^d   Dessauges Zavadsky, Miroslava ^e   Maureira, Maria J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Gamma rays: observations; Gravitational lensing; Intergalactic medium; Quasars: absorption lines; Techniques: spectroscopic

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549112137     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/706/2/1309     Document Type: Article

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