Probing the IGM/Galaxy Connection Toward PKS0405-123 III: The Galaxy Survey and Correlations with OVI Absorbers

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2006-02-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0602172v1

Astrophys.J. 643 (2006) 680-691

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

13 pages, 9 figures. Accepted to ApJ on February 2, 2006

Scientific paper

10.1086/503184

We present a galaxy survey of the field surrounding PKS0405-123 performed with the WFCCD spectrometer at Las Campanas Observatory. The survey is comprised of two datasets: (1) a greater than 95% complete survey to R = 20 of the field centered on PKS0405-123 with 10' radius (L~0.1 L_* and radius of 1Mpc at z=0.1); and (2) a set of four discontiguous (i.e. non-overlapping), flanking fields covering ~1 square degree area with completeness ~90% to R=19.5mag. With these datasets, one can examine the local and large-scale galactic environment of the absorption systems identified toward PKS0405-123. In this paper, we focus on the OVI systems analyzed in Paper I. The results suggest that this gas arises in a diverse set of galactic environments including the halos of individual galaxies, galaxy groups, filamentary-like structures, and also regions devoid of luminous galaxies. In this small sample, there are no obvious trends between galactic environment and the physical properties of the gas. Furthermore, we find similar results for a set of absorption systems with comparable N(HI) but no detectable metal-lines. The observations indicate that metals are distributed throughout a wide range of environments in the local universe. Future papers in this series will address the distribution of galactic environments associated with metal-line systems and the Lya forest based on data for over 10 additional fields. All of the data presented in this paper is made public at a dedicated web site.

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