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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

(Abridged) This paper presents an absorption-line study of the multiphase circumgalactic medium (CGM) based on observations of Lya, CII, CIV, SiII, SiIII, and SiIV absorption transitions in the vicinities of 195 galaxies at redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Cameron Jia Liang , Hsiao-Wen Chen

We present HST/STIS and FUSE spectra of the QSO PG 1211+143 (z_em = 0.081) and a galaxy survey of the surrounding field. This sightline shows two strong intergalactic absorption systems at cz ~ 15,300 and 19,300. This sightline addresses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jason Tumlinson , J. Michael Shull , Mark L. Giroux , John T. Stocke

Galactic outflows regulate the amount of gas galaxies convert into stars. However, it is difficult to measure the mass outflows remove because they span a large range of temperatures and phases. Here, we study the rest-frame ultraviolet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 J. Chisholm , R. Bordoloi , J. R. Rigby , M. Bayliss

We present a detailed analysis of the galaxy and group distributions around three reported X-ray absorption line systems in the spectrum of the quasar H2356-309. Previous studies associated these absorbers with known large-scale galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-14 Rik J. Williams , John S. Mulchaey , Juna A. Kollmeier

We present FUSE and STIS observations of the IGM toward PG 0953+415 (z_em = 0.239). An O VI system at z = 0.06807 is detected in H I Lya, Lyb, Lyg, O VI N V, C IV, and C III. The observations are modeled as a low density intervening gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. D. Savage , K. R. Sembach , T. M. Tripp , P. Richter

We have analyzed all available archival XMM-Newton observations of X Comae, a bright X-ray quasar behind the Coma cluster, to study the properties of the warm-hot intergalactic medium in the vicinity of the nearest massive galaxy cluster.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. Bonamente , J. Ahoranta , E. Tilton , E. Tempel , A. Morandi

We examine the relationship between galaxies and the intergalactic medium at z < 1 using a group of three closely spaced background QSOs with z_em ~1 observed with the Hubble Space Telescope. Using a new grouping algorithm, we identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Neil H. M. Crighton , Simon L. Morris , Jill Bechtold , Robert A. Crain , Buell T. Jannuzi , Allen Shone , Tom Theuns

We report on the detection of two Ne VIII absorbers, at z = 0.61907 and z = 0.57052 in the HST/COS spectrum of background quasars SDSS J 080908.13+461925.6 and SBS 1122+594 respectively. The Ne VIII 770 line is at $\sim 3\sigma$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-06 Sachin Pachat , Anand Narayanan , Vikram Khaire , Blair D. Savage , Sowgat Muzahid , Bart P. Wakker

We have obtained high resolution (FWHM = 4.4 km/s) Keck spectra of images A and C of the gravitationally lensed QSO Q1422+231. The images are separated by 1.3" on the sky. In an absorption system at z = 3.538 gas column density variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Rauch , Wallace L. W. Sargent , Thomas A. Barlow

Although the existence of large-scale hot gaseous halos around massive disk galaxies have been theorized for a long time, there is yet very little observational evidence. We report the Chandra and XMM-Newton grating spectral detection of…

To gain insight into four highly ionized high-velocity clouds (HVCs) discovered by Sembach et al. (1999), we have analyzed data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) for the PKS 2155-304 and…

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

[Abridged] We present a detailed study of the largest sample of intervening O VI systems in the redshift range 1.9 < z < 3.1 detected in high resolution (R ~ 45,000) spectra of 18 bright QSOs observed with VLT/UVES. Based on Voigt profile…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Muzahid , R. Srianand , J. Bergeron , P. Petitjean

We present ultraviolet interstellar absorption line measurements for the sightline towards the O9.5 V star mu Columbae obtained with the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope. These archival data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Christopher Howk , Blair D. Savage , Dirk Fabian

We present a systematic study of the multi-phase interstellar gas in the Inner Galaxy using HST/STIS absorption spectroscopy of 16 massive stars located at spectroscopic distances between 1.3 and 10 kpc in the region $-30^\circ\lesssim l…

We use the observed number and column-density distributions of intergalactic O VI absorbers to constrain the distribution of metals in the low-redshift intergalactic medium (IGM). In this simple model the metals in the O VI absorbers are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jason Tumlinson , Taotao Fang

The pervasive presence of warm gas in galaxy halos suggests that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase in its ionization structure and complex in its kinematics. Some recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations predict…

We report the discovery of a small galaxy system in the vicinity of the NeVIII absorber at z=0.20701 toward HE0226-4110. The galaxy system consists of two 0.25 L* disk galaxies and a 0.05 L* galaxy all within \Delta v < 300 km/s and rho<…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 John S. Mulchaey , Hsiao-Wen Chen

We present FUSE observations of the post-asymptotic giant branch star von Zeipel 1128 (l=42.5, b=+78.7; z=10.0 kpc), located in the globular cluster Messier 3. The FUSE observations cover the wavelength range 905-1187 Ang at ~20 km/s (FWHM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Christopher Howk , Kenneth R. Sembach , Blair D. Savage

We present the results of a large survey of HI, OVI, and CIII absorption lines in the low-redshift (z<0.3) intergalactic medium (IGM). We begin with 171 strong Lyalpha absorption lines (W>80 mA) in 31 AGN sight lines studied with the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charles W. Danforth , J. Michael Shull , Jessica L. Rosenberg , John T. Stocke