Constraints on the universal C IV mass density at z ∼ 6 from early infrared spectra obtained with the Magellan fire spectrograph

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 743, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Simcoe, Robert A ^a   Cooksey, Kathy L ^a   Matejek, Michael ^a   Burgasser, Adam J ^a,b   Bochanski, John ^a,c   Lovegrove, Elizabeth ^a,d   Bernstein, Rebecca A ^d   Pipher, Judith L ^e   Forrest, William J ^e   McMurtry, Craig ^e   Fan, Xiaohui ^f   O'Meara, John ^g  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

galaxies: high redshift; intergalactic medium; quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855203409     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/743/1/21     Document Type: Article

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