On the significance of the excess number of strong Mg II absorbers observed toward gamma-ray bursts
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2013
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Rapoport, Sharon
Onken, Christopher
Wyithe, J Stuart B
Schmidt, Brian
Thygesen, Anders O
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IOP Publishing
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The number of strong (equivalent width >1 Å) Mg II absorbers observed toward gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been found to be statistically larger than the number of strong absorbers toward quasi-stellar objects (QSOs). We formalize this "Mg II problem" and
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Keywords: gamma-ray burst: general; gamma-ray burst: individual (GRB020405); gravitational lensing: strong
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Astrophysical Journal, The
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