High Spatial Resolution Spectroscopy of the Ly alpha Absorption Towards the Gravitational Lens System B1422+2309

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Nov 1995

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Astronomical Journal v.110, p.1984

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

28

Quasars: Individual: B1422+2309, Quasars: Absorption Lines, Gravitational Lensing

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We have obtained spectroscopy of individual components of the gravitationally lensed quasar B 1422+2309, using the Subarcsecond Imaging Spectrograph at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The quasar has a redshift of 3.62, with four lensed images within a diameter of 1.3". Components B and C have nearly identical spectra, confirming that they are the gravitationally lensed images of a single quasar. Numerous absorption lines, most of which are attributable to Lyα, are seen in both spectra. All lines detected are seen in the spectra of both components, implying that the Lyα forest clouds are larger than 0-0.15 h_100_ - 1 kpc at z ~ 3.5. The equivalent widths of common lines are highly correlated, but the differences in the equivalent widths are larger than what is expected from the statistical errors in the individual lines. The scatter in the differences in equivalent widths can be accounted for if the column densities between the two lines of sight differ on average by approximately a factor of 1.5. This suggests that there are small-scale inhomogeneities in the gas density of the structures causing Lyα forest absorption.

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