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Upper limits on O VI Emission From Voyager

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v2

Abstract

We have examined 426 {\it Voyager} fields distributed across the sky for \ion{O}{6} (λλ\lambda \lambda 1032/1038 \AA) emission from the Galactic diffuse interstellar medium. No such emission was detected in any of our observed fields. Our most constraining limit was a 90% confidence upper limit of 2600 \phunit on the doublet emission in the direction (l, b) = (117\fdegree3, 50\fdegree6). Combining this with an absorption line measurement in nearly the same direction allows us to place an upper limit of 0.01 cm3^{-3} on the electron density of the hot gas in this direction. We have placed 90% confidence upper limits of less than or equal to 10,000 \phunit on the \ion{O}{6} emission in 16 of our 426 observations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0105214,
  title  = {Upper limits on O VI Emission From Voyager},
  author = {Jayant Murthy and R. C. Henry and R. L. Shelton and J. B. Holberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0105214},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures accepted ApJ Letters minor editing

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