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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.
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Table of contents (100 papers)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Damped Lyman-Alpha Systems
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Front Matter
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Abundances
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
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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
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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