... SMC

Boisse et al. (1998) show that there there is a bias against finding high metallicity damped Lyman-$\alpha$ systems at high N(H I), because the background sources are extinguished.

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... spectrum

The soft X-ray flux is so fragile that any cool gas interposed would absorb all of it, given that cool gas does not appear in small increments.

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