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most citedThe UVES Large Program for Testing Fundamental Physics: I Bounds on a change in alpha towards quasar HE 2217-2818

112 citations · 778 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.GA2016★ 5 cited

A rotating helical filament in the L1251 dark cloud

S. A. Levshakov, D. Reimers, C. Henkel

(Abridged) Aims. We derive the physical properties of a filament discovered in the dark cometary-shaped cloud L1251. Methods. Mapping observations in the NH3(1,1) and (2,2) inversi…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 25 cited

Fundamental constants and high resolution spectroscopy

P. Bonifacio, H. Rahmani, J. B. Whitmore +14

Absorption-line systems detected in high resolution quasar spectra can be used to compare the value of dimensionless fundamental constants such as the fine-structure constant, alph…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 109 cited

The UVES Large Program for Testing Fundamental Physics II: Constraints on a Change in μ Towards Quasar HE 0027-1836

H. Rahmani, M. Wendt, R. Srianand +14

We present an accurate analysis of the H2 absorption lines from the zabs ~ 2.4018 damped Lyα system towards HE 0027-1836 observed with the Very Large Telescope Ultraviolet and Visu…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 2 cited

Limits on the space-time variations of fundamental constants

S. A. Levshakov, C. Henkel, D. Reimers +1

We report on new tests that improve our previous (2009-2010) estimates of the electron-to-proton mass ratio variation, mu = m_e/m_p. Subsequent observations (2011-2013) at the Effe…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 112 cited

The UVES Large Program for Testing Fundamental Physics: I Bounds on a change in alpha towards quasar HE 2217-2818

P. Molaro, M. Centurion, J. B. Whitmore +14

Absorption line systems detected in quasar spectra can be used to compare the value of the fine-structure constant, α, measured today on Earth with its value in distant galaxies. I…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 5 cited

Fluctuations of the intergalactic ionization field at redshift z ~ 2

I. I. Agafonova, S. A. Levshakov, D. Reimers +2

(Abridged) Aims. To probe the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the ionizing background radiation at z ~ 2 and to specify the sources contributing to the intergalactic radiatio…