QSO absorption lines : probing the universe : proceedings of the QSO Absorption Line Meeting, Baltimore, 1987 May 19-21

Preface 1. QSO absorption lines: introduction W. L. W. Sargent 2. BAL QSOs: observations, models and implications for narrow absorption line systems David A. Turnshek 3. QSO absorption systems with zabs zem C. B. Foltz, F. H. Chaffee, R. J. Weymann and S. F. Anderson 4. The Ly-a forest: observational evidence for line evolution Richard W. Hunstead 5. Properties of the Ly-a clouds R. F. Carswell 6. Absorption lines and galaxy formation Martin J. Rees 7. Properties of the heavy-element absorption systems Jacqueline Bergeron 8. High resolution observations of heavy-element absorption J. Chris Blades 9. In search of a unified description of the narrow absorption line systems David Tytler 10. The properties of the gaseous galactic corona Blair D. Savage 11. Analogies at low redshift for QSO absorption line regions D. G. York 12. The extent of galaxies in 21 cm Renzo Sancisi 13. Evening panel discussion 14. 21 centimeter absorption line F. H. Briggs 15. Damped Ly-a absorption systems Arthur M. Wolfe 16. QSO absorption lines and the universe at redshifts between 1 and 4 J. P. Ostriker.