A direct measurement of the intergalactic medium opacity to H i ionizing photons

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 705, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Prochaska, J Xavier ^a   Worseck, Gabor ^a   O'Meara, John M ^b  

^a University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergalactic medium; Large scale structure of universe; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949509109     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/705/2/L113     Document Type: Article

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