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QSO Absorption Lines

Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 21–24 November 1994

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Georges Meylan

    1. European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

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Part of the book series: ESO Astrophysics Symposia (ESO)

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Table of contents (100 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. QSO Absorption Lines: Progress, Problems and Opportunities

      • Ray Weymann
      Pages 3-10

  3. Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Evolution of the Neutral Gas and Metal Content of Damped Lyman Alpha Systems

      • A. M. Wolfe
      Pages 13-22

    3. Consequences of Dust in Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems

      • S. Michael Fall, Yichuan C. Pei
      Pages 23-34

    4. Are Studies of Dust in Damped Lyman-α Systems Biased by Extinction ?

      • Patrick Boissé
      Pages 35-36

    5. QSO Absorption by Nearby Galaxies

      • M. Trewhella, M. Disney, J. Davies
      Pages 37-38

    6. The Mass Spectrum of Giant Hydrogen Clouds Associated with Damped Lyα Absorbers

      • V. K. Khersonsky, D. A. Turnshek
      Pages 39-42

    7. A Damped Lyα Survey at z < 1.65

      • Sandhya Rao, David Turnshek, Frank Briggs
      Pages 43-46

    8. High Redshift Lyman Limit and Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorbers

      • L. J. Storrie-Lombardi, R. G. McMahon, M. J. Irwin, C. Hazard
      Pages 47-50

    9. Moderate Resolution Studies of Damped Lyα Systems at High Redshift

      • Julio Saucedo, Jill Bechtold
      Pages 51-52

    10. Near-Infrared Hα Searches for Companion Galaxies to Damped Ly-α Systems at z > 2

      • A. J. Bunker, S. J. Warren, P. C. Hewett, D. L. Clements
      Pages 53-54

    11. Lyman α Emission from Galaxies at High Redshifts

      • Max Pettini, Richard W. Hunstead, David L. King, Linda J. Smith
      Pages 55-58

  4. Abundances

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Abundances and Nature of the Absorbers

      • Patrick Petitjean
      Pages 61-70

    3. The Chemical Evolution of Damped Lyman α Galaxies

      • Max Pettini, David L. King, Linda J. Smith, Richard W. Hunstead
      Pages 71-80

    4. Chemical Evolution of (Proto-) Galactic Disks and Metal Abundances of Damped Lyα Absorbers

      • Uta Fritze - v. Alvensleben
      Pages 81-84

    5. Abundances and Ionization in Multiple-Component Absorbers

      • Richard F. Green, Donald York, Keliang Huang, Jill Bechtold, Dan Welty, Matt Carlson et al.
      Pages 85-88

    6. Element Abundances at High Redshifts: The N/O Ratio at Low Metallicity

      • Keith Lipman, Max Pettini, Richard W. Hunstead
      Pages 89-94
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About this book

The controversial question of whether the majority of the narrow absorption lines observed in QSO spectra represent cosmological intervening systems or ejecta from the QSO themselves is settled. QSO absorption line spectroscopy, initially a mere technique, has matured into an essential extragalactic research tool for understanding the content of the Universe at redshifts between 0 and 4, and beyond. The only previous important meeting devoted to "QSO Absorption Lines" was held in May 1987 at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. Since that time, nearly a decade ago, research has been ex­ tremely active in this now well-established field of astrophysics. Theoretical stud­ ies and simulations have taken advantage of the constant progress in computer technology, and during these last few years, the observational results have bene­ fited largely from the new facillities offered by the Hubble Space Telescope in the UV wavelength range and the Keck Telescope for high-resolution spectroscopy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany

    Georges Meylan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: QSO Absorption Lines

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the ESO Workshop Held at Garching, Germany, 21–24 November 1994

  • Editors: Georges Meylan

  • Series Title: ESO Astrophysics Symposia

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49458-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-22373-4Published: 18 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49458-4Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-2433

  • Series E-ISSN: 1611-6143

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 471

  • Number of Illustrations: 169 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Geophysics/Geodesy

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