Detection of pristine gas two billion years after the big bang

Science

Volumn 334, Issue 6060, 2011, Pages 1245-1249

  Fumagalli, Michele ^a   O'Meara, John M ^b   Prochaska, J Xavier ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAINT MICHAEL'S COLLEGE   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; DEUTERIUM; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; HEAVY METAL; INHOMOGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COSMOS; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISTINE GAS; SYNTHESIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 82755189826     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1213581     Document Type: Article

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