The nature of the warm/hot intergalactic medium. I. numerical methods, convergence, and O VI absorption

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 731, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Smith, Britton D ^a   Hallman, Eric J ^a,c   Shull, J Michael ^a   O'Shea, Brian W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmology: observations; intergalactic medium; quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955009751     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/731/1/6     Document Type: Article

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