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We present observations of the Lyα forest of the close quasar pair Q1343+2640A,B. We detect 8 absorption lines of Lyα common to both spectra in the redshift range 1.7 < z < 2.1, and 4 lines which are seen in one spectrum but not the other. At the 9.5″ separation of the two quasars, this implies a firm lower limit on the characteristic radius of the Lyα clouds of 20h −1100 kpc (where h 100 = H 0/100 km s−1 Mpc−1, q 0 = 0.5) at a redshift z ≃ 1.8.
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Dinshaw, N., Impey, C.D., Foltz, C.B., Weymann, R.J., Chaffee, F.H. (1995). Common Lyα Absorption Toward the Quasar Pair Q1343+2640A,B. In: Meylan, G. (eds) QSO Absorption Lines. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49458-4_65
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