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We have used the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope to detect HI 21cm absorption at $z \sim 0.7645$ in the gravitational lens system towards PMN J0134-0931. The 21cm profile has two broad components, with peak optical depths of $0.047 \pm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Kanekar , F. H. Briggs

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

We present optical spectroscopy of projected QSO pairs to investigate the MgII and the CIV absorption features imprinted on the spectrum of the background object by the gaseous halo surrounding the foreground QSO. We observed 13 projected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 E. P. Farina , R. Falomo , R. Decarli , A. Treves , J. K. Kotilainen

We use new observations of very weak CIV absorption lines associated with high-redshift Lyman-alpha absorption systems to measure the high-redshift Lyman-alpha line two-point correlation function (TPCF). These very weak CIV absorption lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Fernandez-Soto , K. M. Lanzetta , X. Barcons , R. F. Carswell , J. K. Webb , A. Yahil

We report on the observed properties of the plasma revealed through high signal-to-noise (S/N) observations of 54 intervening O VI absorption systems containing 85 O VI and 133 H I components in a blind survey of 14 QSOs observed at ~18 km…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 B. D. Savage , T. -S. Kim , B. P. Wakker , B. Keeney , J. M. Shull , J. T. Stocke , J. C. Green

Ultraviolet observations of the QSO 3C 263 (zem = 0.652) with COS and FUSE reveal O VI absorption systems at z = 0.06342 and 0.14072 . WIYN multi-object spectrograph observations provide information about the galaxies associated with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 B. Savage , T. -S. Kim , B. Keeney , A. Narayanan , J. Stocke , B. Wakker

We present the largest catalog to date of triply ionized carbon (CIV) absorbers detected in quasar spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument. Using an automated matched-kernel convolution method with adaptive signal-to-noise…

We test the galactic outflow model by probing associated galaxies of four strong intergalactic CIV absorbers at $z=5$--6 using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ACS ramp narrowband filters. The four strong CIV absorbers reside at $z=5.74$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-01 Zheng Cai , Xiaohui Fan , Romeel Dave , Kristian Finlator , Ben Oppenheimer

We present a new method for recovering the kinetic temperature of the intervening diffuse gas to an accuracy of 10%. The method is based on the comparison of unsaturated absorption-line profiles of two species with different atomic weights.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergei A. Levshakov , Fumio Takahara , Irina I. Agafonova

We list and analyze H I absorption lines at redshifts 2 < z < 4 with column density (12 < log(N_HI) < 19) in 40 high-resolutional (FWHM = 8.0 km/s) quasar spectra obtained with the Keck+HIRES. We de-blend and fit all H I lines within 1,000…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Misawa , D. Tytler , M. Iye , D. Kirkman , N. Suzuki , D. Lubin , N. Kashikawa

We consider the deconvolution of the thermal and the turbulent profiles for a pair of ions with different atomic weights under the condition that the lines are formed in an absorbing medium with fluctuating density and velocity fields. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei A. Levshakov , Wilhelm W. Kegel

We study metal line absorption of CIV, CII, SiIV, and NV at redshifts z=3.5 to z=2 within the framework of a cosmological model for the Lyman alpha forest, comparing the results of numerical simulations to recent observations by Songaila &…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Uffe Hellsten , Romeel Dave , Lars Hernquist , David H. Weinberg , Neal Katz

We present a high-resolution (R=140,000) spectrum of the bright quasar HE0001-2340 (z=2.26), obtained with ESPRESSO at the Very Large Telescope. We analyse three systems at z=0.45, z=1.65, and z=2.19 using multiple-component Voigt-profile…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-21 P. Noterdaeme , S. Balashev , C. Ledoux , G. Duchoquet , S. López , K. Telikova , P. Boissé , J. -K. Krogager , A. De Cia , J. Bergeron

We have observed the much studied Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC5548 with the GHRS spectrometer on HST. Our 14ksec observation covers the CIV emission line at a resolution of >20,000. Our purpose was to study the absorption line found at lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Smita Mathur , Martin Elvis , Belinda Wilkes

We present results from the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey (KBSS), a unique spectroscopic survey designed to explore the connection between galaxies and intergalactic baryons. The KBSS is optimized for the redshift range z ~ 2-3, combining…

We present a detailed study of the kinematics of OVI-bearing gas around 60 low-mass (median log(M*/Msun)~8.9) galaxies at low redshift (0.1 < z < 0.7) using background quasars (median impact parameter $\approx115$ kpc) as part of the MUSE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-25 Sayak Dutta , Sowgat Muzahid , Joop Schaye , Sean Johnson , Hsiao-Wen Chen , Sebastiano Cantalupo

We present the results of a survey for intervening HI 21-cm absorbers at intermediate and low redshift (0<z<1.2). For our total sample of 24 systems, we obtained high quality data for 17 systems, the other seven being severely affected by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 M. A. Zwaan , J. Liske , C. Péroux , M. T. Murphy , N. Bouché , S. J. Curran , A. D. Biggs

We use quasar absorption lines to study the physical conditions in the circumgalactic medium of redshift $z\approx 2.3$ star-forming galaxies taken from the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey (KBSS). In Turner et al. 2014 we used the pixel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Monica L. Turner , Joop Schaye , Charles C. Steidel , Gwen C. Rudie , Allison L. Strom

We have investigated the distribution and evolution of ~3100 intergalactic HI absorbers with HI column densities log N(HI) = [12.75, 17.0] at 1.9 < z < 3.2, using 18 high resolution, high S/N quasar spectra obtained from the ESO VLT/UVES…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tae-Sun Kim , Adrian M. Partl , Robert F. Carswell , Volker Müller

We present results of analysis of physical conditions (number density, intensity of UV field, kinetic temperature) in the cold H$_2$-bearing interstellar medium of local and high redshift galaxies. Our measurements based on the fit to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 V. V. Klimenko , S. A. Balashev