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astro-ph2003
Cosmological Uses of Gamma-Ray Bursts
S. G. Djorgovski, S. R. Kulkarni, D. A. Frail +12
Studies of the cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and their host galaxies are starting to provide interesting or even unique new insights in observational cosmology. GRBs represent a n…
astro-ph2001
The N/O abundance ratio in the lowest-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxies
Y. Izotov, F. Chaffee, C. Foltz +6
The results of the N/O abundance determination in a sample of low-metallicity blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies based on new spectroscopic observations with large telescopes (Keck,…
astro-ph2001
J-Band Spectroscopy of the z = 5.74 BAL QSO SDSSp J104433.04-012502.2
R. W. Goodrich, R. Campbell, F. Chaffee +8
We use the NIRSPEC near-IR spectrometer on Keck II to obtain moderate resolution (R = 1540) spectroscopy that shows conclusively that the C IV emission line in the z = 5.74 quasar…