| The rise of the C IV mass density at z (2009) | |||||||||
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| The cosmic evolution of the metal content of the intergalactic medium puts stringent constraints on the properties of galactic outflows and on the nature of UV background. In this paper, we present a new measure of the redshift evolution of the mass density of C IV, Omega_CIV, in the interval 1.5 < z < 4 based on a sample of more than 1500 C IV lines with column densities 10^{12} < N(CIV) < 10^{15} cm^{-2}. This sample more than doubles the absorption redshift path covered in the range z. Comment: Paper accepted by MNRAS. The parameters of the C IV line fitting will be available in electronic format | |||||||||
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