Distribution of the Lyman-alpha Forest at z = 0.0-1.7

1997/09/15 by Adam Dobrzycki, Dobrzycki, Adam, Jill Bechtold +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9709137

2 pages, 1 EPS figure, conf_iap.sty, To appear in 13th IAP Workshop (1-5 July 1997) "Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium from QSO Absorption Line Systems" eds. P. Petitjean & S. Charlot

arxiv created 1997/09/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We present the analysis of a sample of the Ly-α forest spectra of 152 quasars taken with the HST FOS. The Ly-α lines show little evolution at 0<z<1.7. We see a difference between the evolution indices for weak and strong lines.

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