Volume 1 Abstracts

Introduction, Discoveries, and Methods

695 pages, 227 figures; 2575 references

  Part 1 Breakthrough Astrophysics

  1. A New Science

  2. Modern Framework

  3. Introduction to Methods

  Part 2 Intervening Absorbers

  4. Neutral Hydrogen Absorbers

  5. Deuterium and the Big Bang

  6. 21-cm Absorbers

  7. Helium Absorbers

  8. Low Ionization Metal-line Absorbers

  9. Intermediate Ionization Metal-line Absorbers

10. The Warm/Hot Diffuse Universe

11. High Ionization Metal-line Absorbers

 Part 3 Galaxies and Their Gas

12. Baryons and Dark Matter Halos

13. Studying the Circumgalactic Medium

14. The Nature of the Circumgalactic Medium

15. Friends of Friends and Their Gas

16. Groups and Clusters

17. Starbursts, AGN, and Quasars

18. Active Black Holes and Eddington

19. BALs, NALs, and QPQs

Volume 2 Abstracts

Astrophysics, Analysis, and Modeling

621 pages, 188 figures; 518 references

 Part 4 Ions and Photons in the Cosmos

20. Hydrogen and Hydrogenic Ions

21. Transitions of Hydrogenic Ions

22. Multi-Electron Ions and Transitions

23. Atomic Properties and Spectra

24. The ΛCDM Cosmological Paradigm

25. Applied Cosmology

26. Cosmological Radiative Transfer

Part 5 Analyzing Quasar Spectra

27. Spectrographs and Spectra

28. Absorption Lines and Ionization Breaks

29. Absorption Line Analysis

30. Profile Fitting and Column Densities

31. Absorption Line Surveys

32. Absorber Populations Statistics

Part 6 Modeling Absorbers

33. Macro Properties of Astrophysical Gas

34. The Microphysics of Ionized Gas

35. Introduction to Ionization Modeling

36. Modeling Absorbers