Table · dataset · 2009
Survey of low-redshift OVI absorbers
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Using high-resolution ultraviolet spectra of 16 low-z QSOs obtained with the E140M echelle mode of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, we study the physical conditions and statistics of OVI absorption in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at z<0.5.
Description
We identify 51 intervening (z_abs_<z_QSO_) OVI systems comprising 77 individual components, and we find 14 "proximate" systems (z_abs_~z_QSO_) containing 34 components. For intervening systems (components) with rest-frame equivalent width W_r_>30m{AA}, the number of OVI absorbers per unit redshift dN/dz=15.6^+2.9^_-2.4_(21.0^+3.2^_-2.8_), and this decreases to dN/dz=0.9^+1.0^_-0.5_(0.3^+0.7^_-0.3_) for W_r_>300m{AA}.
The number per redshift increases steeply as z_abs_ approaches z_QSO_; we find that dN/dz is ~3-10 times higher within 2500km/s of z_QSO_. The most striking difference between intervening and proximate systems is that some proximate absorbers have substantially lower HI/OVI ratios.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/177/39 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2008ApJS..177...39T ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJS..177...39T ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/apjs/177/39 ↗
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Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Inferred from text
- Imaging 75%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/apjs/177/39 | 15 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:optical | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:uv | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · IVOA Registry | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
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