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QSO Absorption Line Constraints on Intragroup High-Velocity Clouds

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v3

Abstract

We show that the number statistics of moderate redshift MgII and Lyman limit absorbers may rule out the hypothesis that high velocity clouds are infalling intragroup material.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0002001,
  title  = {QSO Absorption Line Constraints on Intragroup High-Velocity Clouds},
  author = {Jane C. Charlton and Christopher W. Churchill and Jane R. Rigby},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0002001},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, no figures; submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters; revised version, more general and includes more about Braun and Burton CHVCs