Spatial variation in the fine-structure constant - new results from VLT/UVES

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 422, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3370-3414

  King, Julian A ^a   Webb, John K ^a   Murphy, Michael T ^b   Flambaum, Victor V ^a   Carswell, Robert F ^c   Bainbridge, Matthew B ^a   Wilczynska, Michael R ^a   Koch, F Elliott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Methods: data analysis; Quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861231168     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20852.x     Document Type: Article

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