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Randal C. Telfer

Retrieving HST composite QSO spectra

Education
B.S., Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, '93
B.F.A., Trumpet Performance, Carnegie Mellon University, '94
M.A., Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, '96
Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, '02

Publications

• Telfer, R.C., Kriss, G.A., Zheng, W., Davidsen, A.F., & Tytler, D. 2002, Extreme Ultraviolet Absorption Lines in LyA Forest Absorbers and the Oxygen Abundance in the Intergalactic Medium, ApJ, 579, 500
• Telfer, R.C., Zheng, W., Kriss, G.A., & Davidsen, A.F. 2002, The Rest-Frame Extreme Ultraviolet Spectral Properties of QSOs, ApJ, 565, 773
• Telfer, R.C., Kriss, G.A., & Tsvetanov, Z. 2000, A Search for Extended Line Emission from BALQSOs, AJ, 120, 2363
• Telfer, R.C., Kriss, G.A., Zheng, W., Davidsen, A.F., & Green, R.F. 1998, The Very Highly Ionized Broad Absorption Line System of the QSO SBS1542+541, ApJ, 509, 132
• Zheng, W., Kriss, G.A., Telfer, R.C., Grimes, J.P., & Davidsen, A.F. 1997, A Composite HST Spectrum of Quasars, ApJ, 475, 469

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