First results from the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph - The Galactic halo and the Ly-alpha forest at low redshift in 3C 273

Details First results from the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph - The Galactic halo and the Ly-alpha forest at low redshift in 3C 273 First results from the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph - The Galactic halo and the Ly-alpha forest at low redshift in 3C 273

Aug 1991

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 377, Aug. 10, 1991, p. L21-L24.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

168

Interstellar Matter, Lyman Alpha Radiation, Quasars, Red Shift, Spectrographs, Ultraviolet Spectra, Cosmology, Halos, High Resolution, Hubble Space Telescope

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Results of initial spectroscopy using the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph and the Hubble Space Telescope on the bright low-redshift quasar 3C 273 are presented. Absorption lines produced by gas in the disk and halo of the Galaxy from numerous neutral and weakly ionized atoms and also from highly ionized atoms are detected. The detection of N v provides additional strong support for the existence of gas with T about 200,000 K at large distances away from the disk of the Galaxy. Ten absorption lines with EW greater than 50 mA, and four possible lines with EW between 25 and 50 mA, are also found in the region between 1235 and 1406 A. These cannot be identified with any lines in the galactic interstellar medium and must therefore all be Ly-alpha systems at very low redshifts. This number of lines is 5-10 times larger than expected from a simple extrapolation of the high-redshift evolution derived from ground-based observations and is consistent with no evolution in cloud properties since z = 2.

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