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most citedLimits on the time variation of the electromagnetic fine-structure constant in the low energy limit from absorption lines in the spectra of distant quasars

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astro-ph2008★ 26 cited

Obscured and powerful AGN and starburst activities at z~3.5

M. Polletta, A. Omont, S. Berta +9

We report the discovery of two sources at z=3.867 and z=3.427 that exhibit powerful starburst and AGN activities. They benefit from data from radio to X rays from the CFHTLS-D1/SWI…

astro-ph2008★ 62 cited

HD molecules at high redshift: A low astration factor of deuterium in a solar-metallicity DLA system at z=2.418

P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, C. Ledoux +2

We present the detection of deuterated molecular hydrogen (HD) in the remote Universe in a damped Lyman-alpha cloud at zabs=2.418 toward the quasar SDSS J143912.04+111740.5. This i…

astro-ph2008★ 73 cited

Detection of the 2175Å~ extinction feature and 21-cm absorption in two MgII systems at z~1.3

R. Srianand, N. Gupta, P. Petitjean +2

We have discovered two dusty intervening MgII absorption systems at z~1.3 in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) database. The overall spectra of both QSOs are red (u-K>4.5 mag) an…

astro-ph2008★ 141 cited

First detection of CO in a high-redshift DLA

R. Srianand, P. Noterdaeme, C. Ledoux +1

We present the first detection of carbon monoxide (CO) in a damped Lyman-alpha system (DLA) at z_abs =2.41837 toward SDSS J143912.04+111740.5. We also detected H_2 and HD molecules…

astro-ph2008★ 201 cited

Molecular hydrogen in high-redshift Damped Lyman-alpha systems: The VLT/UVES database

P. Noterdaeme, C. Ledoux, P. Petitjean +1

We present the current status of ongoing searches for molecular hydrogen in high-redshift (1.8 < zabs <= 4.2) Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) capitalising on observations perform…

astro-ph2008★ 46 cited

Constrained semi-analytical models of Galactic outflows

Saumyadip Samui, Kandaswamy Subramanian, Raghunathan Srianand

We present semi-analytic models of galactic outflows, constrained by available observations on high redshift star formation and reionization. Galactic outflows are modeled in a man…