Physics
Scientific paper
Jul 1996
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HST Proposal ID #6592
Physics
Hst Proposal Id #6592 Intergalactic Medium
Scientific paper
Our ongoing program to measure the sizes of Ly-alpha forest clouds by looking for common absorption in close pairs of quasars using FOS UV spectroscopy {GO Programs 5320 and 6100} has yielded dramatic and unexpected results: {1} Observations of the pair Q0107-025A,B {z_em eq 0.95} give a firm and model-independent lower limit on the transverse size of the absorbers of more than 300 kpc and suggest a characteristic radius of the clouds of 600 ,h^-1 kpc {h = 100 kms Mpc^-1; q_0 = 0.5} at 0.5 <= z <= 0.9. {2} Similar observations of the higher redshift pair LB 9605 {z_ em = 1.834} and LB 9612 {z_ em = 1.898} imply a characteristic radius of about half that inferred at lower redshift. Together with ground-based observations, these results imply an evolution of cloud radii with redshift, with the characteristic size of the Ly-alpha absorbers decreasing with increasing redshift. {3} Evidence is also found for a possible dependence of cloud radii on column density, with the high column density clouds being larger in extent than the lower column density clouds. Additional observations of these quasars, as well as a third quasar LBQS 0107-0232 within 3' of Q0107-025A,B, will establish whether the correlation with column density is real, further constrain the size of the clouds at two different redshift ranges, and probe cloud sizes on scales up to 1 Mpc.
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