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We present two cases of gravitationally lensed quasars that have damped Ly α lines in the spectrum of one image and not in the spectrum of the second. We study how the statistical quantities derived from surveys for damped Ly α systems can be affected by gravitational lensing due to the absorbers themselves.
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Smette, A. (1996). Gravitational Lenses and Damped Lyman Alpha Systems. In: Bremer, M.N., van der Werf, P.P., Röttgering, H.J.A., Carilli, C.L. (eds) Cold Gas at High Redshift. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 206. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1726-2_29
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