Evidence for short ~ 1 Myr lifetimes from the He II proximity zones of z ~ 4 quasars
The first measurement of the quasar lifetime distribution
Instrument
COS, COS/FUV, COS/NUV
Temporal Coverage
2016-10-30T11:45:25Z/2016-10-30T17:19:22Z
Version
1.0
Mission Description
Launched in 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope remains the premier UV and visible light telescope in orbit. With well over 1.6 million observations from 10 different scientific instruments, the ESA Hubble Science Archive is a treasure trove of astronomical data to be exploited.
European Space Agency, Worseck comma Gabor, 2017, 'An Accurate Measurement of the IGM HeII Lyman Alpha Forest toward a Newly Discovered UV-bright Quasar at z>3.5', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-wtoipm2