On the abundance of interstellar oxygen toward Zeta Ophiuchi

Details On the abundance of interstellar oxygen toward Zeta Ophiuchi On the abundance of interstellar oxygen toward Zeta Ophiuchi

Apr 1979

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 229, Apr. 1, 1979, p. 132-135.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Interstellar Gas, Interstellar Matter, Oxygen, Astronomical Photometry, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Cosmic Dust, Ice, Interstellar Extinction, Sodium, Water

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Zeippen, Seaton, and Morton (1977) recently published profiles of interstellar neutral oxygen lines in Zeta Oph. From a reconsideration of the profiles of visual interstellar lines to that star, it follows that the cloud dominating the O I absorption could have a very small velocity spread, approximately 0.5 km/s. Analysis of the profile of the 1302-A line gives a column density of O I in that cloud of 6.0 + or - 5 x 10 to the 17th per sq cm. This implies an upward revision of the abundance of free oxygen by a factor 1.5 and hence that oxygen is only 25% depleted in the gas to Zeta Oph, contrary to the minimum depletion of a factor 1.8 found by Zeippen, Seaton, and Morton. This small depletion of oxygen in interstellar gas is consistent with the widespread absence of absorption by H2O ice mantles on interstellar dust grains.

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