QSO Absorption Lines
QSO Absorption Lines
Probing the Universe
October 1988
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9780521345613
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This second title in the series published for the Space Telescope Science Institute collects the papers given at a symposium on QSO Absorption Lines in Baltimore, Maryland, in May 1987. Experts in the field discuss the nature of the absorbing process in the vicinity of quasars, the 'Lyman-alpha forest', metal-line systems, and quasars as probes of high redshift galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope will be a valuable tool for learning more about the physics and astronomy of quasars. This book keeps professionals and researchers up-to-date with current models of quasar absorption.
Product details
October 1988Hardback
9780521345613
360 pages
247 × 174 × 25 mm
0.842kg
Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. QSO absorption lines: introduction W. L. W. Sargent
- 2. BAL QSOs: observations, models and implications for narrow absorption line systems David A. Turnshek
- 3. QSO absorption systems with zabs ≈ zem C. B. Foltz, F. H. Chaffee, R. J. Weymann and S. F. Anderson
- 4. The Ly-a forest: observational evidence for line evolution Richard W. Hunstead
- 5. Properties of the Ly-a clouds R. F. Carswell
- 6. Absorption lines and galaxy formation Martin J. Rees
- 7. Properties of the heavy-element absorption systems Jacqueline Bergeron
- 8. High resolution observations of heavy-element absorption J. Chris Blades
- 9. In search of a unified description of the narrow absorption line systems David Tytler
- 10. The properties of the gaseous galactic corona Blair D. Savage
- 11. Analogies at low redshift for QSO absorption line regions D. G. York
- 12. The extent of galaxies in 21 cm Renzo Sancisi
- 13. Evening panel discussion
- 14. 21 centimeter absorption line F. H. Briggs
- 15. Damped Ly-a absorption systems Arthur M. Wolfe
- 16. QSO absorption lines and the universe at redshifts between 1 and 4 J. P. Ostriker.
