Lyman alpha forest
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| definition | The appearance of many differentially redshifted Lyman alpha lines in absorption in a quasar's spectrum, caused by intervening hydrogen clouds along our line of sight to the quasar. | |||||||||
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| contributor | AAS_Frey.Katie original | |||||||||