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Accurate Measurements of the Local Deuterium Abundance from HST Spectra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Jeffrey L. Linsky
Jeffrey L. Linsky*
Affiliation:
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado and N.I.S.T., Boulder CO 80309-0440

Abstract

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An accurate measurement of the primordial value of D/H would provide a critical test of nucleosynthesis models for the early universe and the baryon density. I briefly summarize the ongoing HST observations of the interstellar H and D Lyman-α absorption for lines of sight to nearby stars and comment on recent reports of extragalactic D/H measurements.

Type
Part II: Contributed Papers
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 168: Examining the Big Bang and the Diffuse Background Radiations , 1996 , pp. 529 - 532
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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