Reconstructing the intergalactic UV background with QSO absorption lines

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 532, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fechner, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

diffuse radiation; intergalactic medium; quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION LINES; BACKGROUND SPECTRA; COLUMN DENSITY; DIFFUSE RADIATION; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM; IONIZATION PARAMETER; IONIZATION STAGES; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; METAL ABSORPTION; METAL LINE; METALLICITIES; OBSERVED SYSTEMS; PHOTOIONIZATION MODELS; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; QUASARS:ABSORPTION LINES; RE-EMISSION; REIONIZATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SMALL SAMPLES; SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION;

ASTROPHYSICS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; HELIUM; ION BEAMS; IONIZATION; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION SHIELDING; RADIOACTIVITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION;

EID: 79960681076     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201117080     Document Type: Article

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