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High-resolution UV spectroscopy of low-z QSOs with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer has indicated that O VI absorption-line systems provide a valuable probe of the low-z intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Todd M. Tripp

High signal-to-noise (S/N) observations of the QSO PKS 0405-123 (zem = 0.572) with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph from 1134 to 1796 A with a resolution of 17 km s-1 are used to study the multi-phase partial Lyman limit system (LLS) at z =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 B. D. Savage , A. Narayanan , B. P. Wakker , J. T. Stocke , B. A. Keeney , J. M. Shull , K. R. Sembach , Y. Yao , C. , J. Green

We use spectroscopic data from HST and FUSE to study the wide range of ionization states of the "highly ionized high-velocity clouds". Studied extensively in OVI absorption, these clouds are usually assumed to be infalling gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux

FUV echelle spectroscopy of the radio-quiet QSO H1821+643 (z = 0.297), obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) at 7 km/s resolution, reveals 4 definite O VI absorption line systems and one probable O VI absorber at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. M. Tripp , B. D. Savage , E. B. Jenkins

This paper reports the first study of the O VI resonance line emission (1032, 1038 Angstroms) originating in the Local Bubble (or Local Hot Bubble) surrounding the solar neighborhood. In spite of the fact that O VI absorption within the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. L. Shelton

We present a complete catalogue of 27 O VI absorbers at low redshift (0.12 < z < 0.5) from a blind survey of 16 QSO echelle spectra in the HST/STIS data archive. These absorbers are identified based only upon matching line profiles and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Thom , Hsiao-Wen Chen

We present a phenomenological study of highly ionised, non-photospheric absorption features in high spectral resolution vacuum ultraviolet spectra of 23 hot DA white dwarfs. Prior to this study, four of the survey objects (Feige 24, REJ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. P. Bannister , M. A. Barstow , J. B. Holberg , F. C. Bruhweiler

Six high-resolution (\lambda/\Delta\lambda ~ 3000) far-UV (\lambda\lambda = 910-1210 \AA) spectra of the magnetic cataclysmic variable AM Herculis were acquired in 1996 November during the flight of the ORFEUS-SPAS II mission. AM Her was in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher W. Mauche , John C. Raymond

X-ray absorption lines of highly-ionized species such as OVII at about zero redshift have been firmly detected in the spectra of several active galactic nuclei. However, the location of the absorbing gas remains a subject of debate. To…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. D. Wang , Y. Yao , T. M. Tripp , T. -T. Fang , W. Cui , F. Nicastro , S. Mathur , R. J. Williams , L. Song , R. Croft

We report the discovery of an O VI absorption system at z(abs) = 0.14232 in a high resolution FUV spectrum of PG0953+415 obtained with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). Both lines of the O VI 1032, 1038 doublet and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Todd M. Tripp , Blair D. Savage

Hydrodynamic simulations of growth of cosmic structure suggest that 30-50% of the total baryons at z=0 may be in a warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) with temperatures ~10^5-10^7K. The O VI \lambda \lambda 1032, 1038 absorption line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Renyue Cen , Todd M. Tripp , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Edward B. Jenkins

I summarize Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of interstellar O VI absorption towards 12 early-type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the closest disk galaxy to the Milky Way. LMC O VI is seen towards all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Christopher Howk

We present the analysis of five O VI absorbers identified across a redshift path of z $\sim (0.6 - 1.3)$ towards the background quasar PG $1522+101$ with information on five consecutive ionization stages of oxygen from O II to O VI. The…

FUSE spectra were obtained of the supersoft X-ray binary RX J0019.8+2156 (QR And) during 16 consecutive spacecraft orbits, covering the binary orbit (P=15.85 hr) with about 0.2 phase overlap. The spectrum is dominated by strong H2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. B. Hutchings , D. Crampton , A. P. Cowley , P. C. Schmidtke , A. W. Fullerton

In the preceding paper (paper I), we presented HI absorption spectra towards radio sources very close to the lines of sight towards 25 bright stars against which optical absorption spectra had been obtained earlier. In this paper we analyse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jayadev Rajagopal , G. Srinivasan , K. S. Dwarakanath

We present observations of the O VI system at z_abs = 0.495096 toward PKS 0405-123 (z_em = 0.5726) obtained with FUSE and STIS. In addition to strong O VI, with log N(O VI) = 14.47+/-0.02, and moderate H I this absorber shows C III, N IV, O…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-25 J. Christopher Howk , Joseph S. Ribaudo , Nicolas Lehner , J. Xavier Prochaska , Hsiao-Wen Chen

We used the FUSE (Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer) satellite to observe OVI emission along two sightlines towards the edge of the interaction zone (IZ) between the Loop I superbubble and the Local Bubble. One sightline was chosen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 Shauna M. Sallmen , Eric J. Korpela , Hiroki Yamashita

We create stacked composite absorption spectra from Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph data from four quasi-stellar objects to search for absorption lines in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength region associated with LyA forest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. C. Telfer , G. A. Kriss , W. Zheng , A. F. Davidsen , D. Tytler

Far ultraviolet spectra were obtained of the active cool star AB Doradus (HD 36705) during the calibration and checkout period of the FUSE satellite. Observations in this early phase of the mission were taken at a resolving power of…

We investigate the azimuthal dependence of H I and O VI-bearing gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 113 isolated galaxies in the redshift range 0.12 < z < 0.75, including 91 new measurements from the MUSE Quasar-fields Blind Emitters…