The nature of proximate damped Lyman α systems

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 406, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1435-1459

  Ellison, Sara L ^a   Prochaska, J Xavier ^b   Hennawi, Joseph ^c   Lopez, Sebastian ^d   Usher, Christopher ^a   Wolfe, Arthur M ^e   Russell, David M ^f   Benn, Chris R ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: high redshift; Galaxies: ISM; Quasers: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; IONIZATION; IONIZING RADIATION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STARS;

ABSORPTION LINES; BLACK STAR; ECHELLE; GALAXIES ABUNDANCES; GALAXIES: ISM; GALAXIES:HIGH-REDSHIFT; PROPERTY; QUASER: ABSORPTION LINE; QUASI-STELLAR OBJECTS; SPECTRA'S;

GALAXIES;

EID: 77955260919     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16780.x     Document Type: Article

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