Broad absorption line disappearance on multi-year timescales in a large quasar sample

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 757, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Filiz Ak, N ^a,b   Brandt, W N ^a   Hall, P B ^c   Schneider, D P ^a   Anderson, S F ^d   Gibson, R R ^d   Lundgren, B F ^e   Myers, A D ^f   Petitjean, P ^g   Ross, Nicholas P ^h   Shen, Yue ⁱ   York, D G ^j   Bizyaev, D ^k   Brinkmann, J ^k   Malanushenko, E ^k   Oravetz, D J ^k   Pan, K ^k   Simmons, A E ^k   Weaver, B A ^l  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Yale University   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^g INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^h LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^k APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866428072     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/757/2/114     Document Type: Review

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