Size estimates for intervening C IV absorbers from high resolution spectroscopy of APM 0827+5255

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2002-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0212393v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 340 (2003) 937-948

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06355.x

A new analysis of Keck/HIRES observations of the broad absorption line QSO APM 0827+5255 indicates that a number of intervening C IV absorbers give rise to absorption lines for which the observed optical depths for 1548, 1550 A doublet components are not in the expected 2:1 ratio. To compensate for the effect, a local adjustment of the zero-level is required. We model this effect as coverage of one line of sight to this gravitationally lensed QSO and perform a set of simulations to select a sample of lines for which our model provides an explanation for the effect. We use lines in this sample to obtain estimates for minimum C IV absorber sizes from total coverage and the separations of the lines of sight for a range of lens redshifts, z_l, and two cosmologies. We also obtain best estimates for overall sizes from a statistical `hit and miss' approach. For z_l=0.7 our results set a lower limit to sizes of C IV absorbers of ~0.3 h_72^{-1} kpc (~0.5 h_72^{-1} kpc) for Omega_M=1, Omega_Lambda=0 (Omega_M=0.3, Omega_Lambda=0.7), in agreement with other results from similar work but are limited by sample size and the uncertainty in z_l. Our method can be used to detect lensed QSOs and to probe absorber sizes when separate spectra cannot be obtained for each line of sight.

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