Precious Metals in SDSS Quasar Spectra. I. Tracking the Evolution of Strong, 1.5 < z < 4.5 C IV Absorbers with Thousands of Systems

We have vastly increased the C IV statistics at intermediate redshift by surveying the thousands of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data-Release 7. We visually verified over 16,000 C IV systems with 1.46 < z < 4.55—a sample size that renders Poisson error negligible. Detailed Mo...

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Main Authors: Cooksey, Kathy, Kao, Melodie M., Simcoe, Robert A., O'Meara, John M., Prochaska, J. Xavier
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76757
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3769-9559