Galaxies, Intergalactic Absorption Lines, and Feedback at High Redshift
Abstract
The galaxy-IGM part of the Lyman-break survey currently consists of measured redshifts for more than 1000 galaxies with redshift 1.5<z<3.5 along the sightlines to 25 background QSOs. One of the goals of the survey was to measure the influence on the intergalactic medium of energetic feedback from star and black-hole formation. This talk begins with a description of the observed correlations between galaxies and intergalactic absorption lines and ends with a discussion of whether any of the observations provide clear evidence for Mpc-scale superwinds. Although our own observations remain fairly ambiguous, other observations disfavor a very high redshift (z~10) for the creation of intergalactic metals.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0504311,
title = {Galaxies, Intergalactic Absorption Lines, and Feedback at High Redshift},
author = {Kurt L. Adelberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0504311},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, to appear in IAU 199 conf proc, "Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines," eds. Williams, Shu, Menard