The Nature of the Low-redshift Ly-alpha Clouds

Details The Nature of the Low-redshift Ly-alpha Clouds The Nature of the Low-redshift Ly-alpha Clouds

1997-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709109v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages LATEX, with 5 PostScript figures, conf_iap.sty To appear in Proceedings of 13th IAP (Paris) Colloquium, (July 1-5, 199

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I discuss recent HST observations and interpretation of low-z Ly-alpha clouds toward nearby Seyferts and QSOs, including their frequency, space density, estimated mass, association with galaxies, and contribution to Omega_b. Our HST/GHRS detections of 73 Lya absorbers with N_HI > 10^12.6 cm^(-2) along 11 sightlines covering pathlength Delta(cz) = 86,000 km/s show f(>N_HI) proportional to N_HI^(-0.6 +/- 0.2). A group of strong absorbers toward PKS~2155-304 may be associated with gas (400-800)/h_75 kpc from 4 large galaxies with low metallicity (<0.004 solar) and D/H < 2 x 10^-4. At low-z, we derive a metagalactic ionizing radiation field and Lya-forest baryon density J_0 = (1.1 +/- 0.4) x 10^(-23) ergs/cm^2/s/Hz/sr and Omega_b = (0.008 +/- 0.004) h_75^(-1) [J_-23 N_14 b_100]^0.5 for clouds of characteristic size b = (100 kpc)b_100.

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