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most citedThe Mystery of Alpha and the Isotopes

4 citations · 7 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Beyond CDM: fundamental constants as cosmological observables

Dinko Milaković, John K. Webb

Recent cosmological tensions pose difficulties for CDM. Forthcoming facilities will be able to check whether these tensions result from systematic effects or indeed with the …

astro-ph.SR2024★ 2 cited

Searching for new physics using high precision absorption spectroscopy; continuum placement uncertainties and the fine structure constant in strong gravity

Chung-Chi Lee, John K. Webb, Darren Dougan +3

Searches for variations of fundamental constants require a comprehensive understanding of measurement errors. This paper examines a source of error that is usually overlooked: the…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Searching for new physics using high precision absorption spectroscopy; continuum placement uncertainties and towards the quasar PHL957

John K. Webb, Chung-Chi Lee, Dinko Milaković +3

Detecting or placing upper limits on spacetime variations of fundamental constants requires quantifying every potential source of uncertainty. We continue our previous study into t…

astro-ph.GA2024

Isotopic abundance of carbon in the DLA towards QSO B1331+170

Dinko Milaković, John K. Webb, Paolo Molaro +19

Chemical evolution models predict a gradual build-up of C in the universe, based on empirical nuclear reaction rates and assumptions on the properties of stellar populations…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

The Mystery of Alpha and the Isotopes

John K. Webb, Chung-Chi Lee, Dinko Milakovic +3

We report unbiased AI measurements of the fine structure constant in two proximate absorption regions in the spectrum of the quasar HE05154414. The data are high resolution,…

astro-ph.CO2023

Convergence properties of fine structure constant measurements using quasar absorption systems

John K. Webb, Chung-Chi Lee

Searches for spacetime variations of fundamental constants have entered an era of unprecedented precision. New, high quality quasar spectra require increasingly refined analytic me…