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Document Type
Article
Date of this Version
8-20-1999
Abstract
There has been a long-standing discrepancy between the densities deduced from studies of the variability of quasar emission lines and those inferred from standard photoionization analyses. We have found that the higher metal abundances now believed to be present in most quasars lead to the higher densities being predicted by photoionization models. We explain why this is so.
Comments
Published by University of Chicago Press; Astrophys. J. (Letters), 521, L91 (1999). Copyright 1999. Permission to use. HREF="http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/"http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/.