Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Nov 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983apj...274..136y&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 274, Nov. 1, 1983, p. 136-140.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Absorption Spectra, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Interstellar Extinction, Milky Way Galaxy, Quasars, Galactic Structure, Iue, Line Spectra, Satellite Observation, Silicon, Spectral Line Width
Scientific paper
Absorption lines near the rest wavelengths of the Si IV doublet (wavelengths 1393.76, 1402.77) with equivalent widths 533 and 235 mA are reported in the spectrum of QSO 3C 273. The profiles show the nature of hot gas along a high-latitude (b = 64 deg) line of sight through our entire halo. The lines have full width at half-maxima of 100 km/s, compared to an instrumental resolution of 35 km/s, are centered at zero velocity, and show no evidence for components with equivalent widths greater than 50 mA at an absolute value of v greater than 75 km/s. The absence of high peculiar velocities is consistent with published spectra of halo gas over shorter pathlengths. The implications of this result are discussed, with particular reference to the possible connection between galactic halos and QSO absorption lines, for which C IV and Si IV usually have a broader velocity range.
Blades Chris J.
Cowie Lennox L.
Morton Donald C.
Ratcliff Stephen
Wu Congjun
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