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

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 777, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Filiz Ak, N ^a,b   Brandt, W N ^a   Hall, P B ^c   Schneider, D P ^a   Anderson, S F ^d   Hamann, F ^e   Lundgren, B F ^f   Myers, Adam D ^g   Paris I ^h   Petitjean, P ⁱ   Ross, Nicholas P ^j   Shen, Yue ^k,l   York, Don ^m,n  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

ⁱ SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^j LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^k HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^l CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Author keywords

quasars: absorption lines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886808644     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/168     Document Type: Article

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