Deuterium abundances

被引:62
作者
Lemoine, M [1 ]
Audouze, J
Ben Jaffel, L
Feldman, P
Ferlet, R
Hébrard, G
Jenkins, EB
Mallouris, C
Moos, W
Sembach, K
Sonneborn, G
Vidal-Madjar, A
York, DG
机构
[1] Observ Paris, CNRS, UPR 176, DARC, F-92195 Meudon, France
[2] Inst Astrophys, CNRS, F-75014 Paris, France
[3] Johns Hopkins Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA
[4] Princeton Univ Observ, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[5] Univ Chicago, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[6] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
关键词
ISM : abundances; cosmology : observations;
D O I
10.1016/S1384-1076(99)00017-2
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We discuss the measurements of deuterium abundances in high redshift quasar absorbers, in the solar system and in the interstellar medium. We present new results that indicate spatial variations of the deuterium abundance in the interstellar medium at the level of similar to 50% over scales possibly as small as similar to 10 pc, and discuss plausible causes for the origin of these variations. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:231 / 243
页数:13
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