quasar absorption line system

C40745
concept

A quasar absorption line system is a collection of gas along the line of sight to a distant quasar that imprints characteristic absorption features on the quasar’s spectrum, revealing the physical and chemical properties of intervening cosmic structures.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
quasar absorption line system canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: quasar absorption line system
Generated description
A quasar absorption line system is a collection of gas along the line of sight to a distant quasar that imprints characteristic absorption features on the quasar’s spectrum, revealing the physical and chemical properties of intervening cosmic structures.

Instances (1)

Instance Via concept surface
damped Lyman-alpha systems
surface form: damped Lyman-alpha system