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Testing Cosmological Models Using Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorbers

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Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure

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Systems producing absorption in the spectra of distant quasars offer an excellent probe of the early Universe. At high redshifts, they easily outnumber other observed tracers of cosmic structure, including both normal and active galaxies. Mounting evidence that the high column density absorbers are young galaxies links relatively pristine baryonic matter to highly evolved objects at the present day ([1-3] and references therein).

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  1. Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Jeffrey P. Gardner & Neal Katz

  2. Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA

    Lars Hernquist

  3. Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    David H. Weinberg

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  1. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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  2. Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy

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Gardner, J.P., Katz, N., Hernquist, L., Weinberg, D.H. (1997). Testing Cosmological Models Using Damped Lyman-Alpha Absorbers. In: Schramm, D.N., Galeotti, P. (eds) Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure. NATO ASI Series, vol 503. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0053-0_18

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