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The Ionization and Metallicity of the Intervening O VI Absorber at z = 0.1212 in the Spectrum of H1821+643 | Todd M. Tripp
; Mark L. Giroux
; John T. Stocke
; Jason Tumlinson
; William R. Oegerle
; | Date: |
23 Aug 2001 | Journal: | Ap.J. 563, 724-735 (Dec. 20, 2001) | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | 3,4) ( Princeton, Colorado, JHU, GSFC | Abstract: | We use high-resolution UV spectra of the radio-quiet QSO H1821+643 (z_em = 0.297), obtained with STIS and FUSE, to study the ionization and metallicity of an intervening O VI absorption line system at z(abs) = 0.1212. This absorber has the following notable properties: (1) Several galaxies are close to the sight line at the absorber redshift, including an actively star-forming galaxy at a projected distance of 144 kpc. (2) There is a complex cluster of H I lya absorption lines near the O VI redshift, including at least five components spread over a velocity range of ~700 km/s . (3) The strongest lya line in the cluster appears to be composed of a mildly saturated component with a typical b-value blended with a broad component with b = 85 km/s . (4) The O VI absorption is not aligned with the strongest H I absorption, but instead is well-aligned with the broad component. (5) The only detected species (>4sigma) are O VI and H I despite coverage of strong transitions of other abundant elements. Based on these constraints, we find that the absorption line properties can be produced in collisionally ionized gas with roughly 5.3 < log T < 5.6 and -1.8 < [O/H] < -0.6. However, we find that photoionization is also viable if the pathlength l through the absorbing gas is long enough; simple photoionization models require 85 < l < 1900 kpc and -1.1 < [O/H] < -0.3. We briefly discuss how observations of X-ray absorption lines due to O VII and O VIII could be used, in principle, to break the ionization mechanism degeneracy. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0108371 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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