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Nov 1984
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984nascp2345..113f&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center Local Interstellar Medium, No. 81 p 113-116 (SEE N85-15539 06-90)
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Absorption Spectra, Clouds, Interstellar Gas, Deuterium, Distance, Interstellar Radiation, Nitrogen, Sodium, Space Density, Stars, Sun
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Observations indicated that a cloud with a heliocentric velocity of approximately -28 km/s and a hydrogen column density that possibly could be on the order of, or greater than, 5 x 10 to the 19 power/square cm is located within the nearest 50 to 80 parsecs in the direction of Ophiuchus. This is a surprisingly large column density of material for this distance range. The patchy nature of the absorption from the cloud indicates that it may not be a feature with uniform properties, but rather one with small scale structure which includes local enhancements in the column density. This cloud is probably associated with the interstellar cloud at about the same velocity in front of the 20 parsec distant star alpha Oph (Frisch 1981, Crutcher 1982), and the weak interstellar polarization found in stars as near as 35 parsecs in this general region (Tinbergen 1982). These data also indicate that some portion of the -14 km/s cloud also must lie within the 100 parsec region. Similar observations of both Na1 and Ca2 interstellar absorption features were performed in other lines of sight. Similar interstellar absorption features were found in a dozen stars between 20 and 100 parsecs of the Sun.
Frisch Priscilla C.
York Don G.
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