Upper limits on O VI Emission From Voyager
Abstract
We have examined 426 {\it Voyager} fields distributed across the sky for \ion{O}{6} ( 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 cm 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