J/ApJ/643/680ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/643/680doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.16430680CDSProchaska J.X.Weiner B.J.Chen H.-W.Mulchaey J.S.2011-06-17T15:39:00Z2008-01-10T13:44:37ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frquasarsphotometrygalaxiesspectroscopyWe present a galaxy survey of the field surrounding PKS 0405-123 performed with the WFCCD spectrometer at Las Campanas Observatory. The survey is comprised of two data sets: (1) a greater than 95% complete survey to R=20mag of the field centered on PKS 0405-123 with 10' radius (L~0.1L* and radius of 1Mpc at z=0.1); and (2) a set of four discontiguous (i.e., non-overlapping), flanking fields covering ~1deg^2^ area with completeness ~90% to R=19.5mag. With these data sets, one can examine the local and large-scale galactic environment of the absorption systems identified toward PKS 0405-123. In this paper, we focus on the O VI systems analyzed in Paper I (Prochaska et al., 2004, Cat. <J/ApJ/617/718>). 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 NHI 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 Ly forest based on data for over 10 additional fields. All of the spectra and fits tables are available at http://www.ucolick.org/~xavier/WFCCDOVI/2006ApJ...643..680Phttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/643/680CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toJ/ApJS/193/28 : Galaxy survey around 20 UV-bright quasars (Prochaska+, 2011)J/ApJ/617/718 : Atomic data and EW for PKS 0405-123 (Prochaska+, 2004)http://www.ucolick.org/~xavier/WFCCDOVI/ : WFCCD OVI Databasehttps://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/643/680https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/643/680http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/643/680https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/643/680https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/643/680http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/643/680GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJ/643/680/pks0405 (PKS0405-123 spectroscopic table)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/643/680/pks0405?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/643/680/pks0405?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/643/680/pks0405?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true62.133333-12.2852780.005555555555555556Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/643/680/table1 (Object Summary)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/643/680/table1?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/643/680/table1?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/643/680/table1?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true62.029167-12.1519440.0055555555555555566/22659 22662 22665 226682.762881831355591e-19 3.3785437584409506e-19https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJ/643/680?format=asciiOpticaldefaultJ/ApJ/643/680/pks0405PKS0405-123 spectroscopic tablerecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordint[PWC2006b]Running identification number (slit)meta.id;meta.mainintRAJ2000Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainRmag? The R band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.opt.Rfloatnullablez? Redshiftsrc.redshiftfloatnullableFileNameName of the file containing the spectra at the WFCCDOVI Database (1)meta.id;meta.filecharJ/ApJ/643/680/table1Object SummaryrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintn_[PWC2006b][1/7] Status of object ID (2)meta.noteint[PWC2006b]Running identification number (slit)meta.id;meta.mainintprimaryRAJ2000Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainRmagThe R band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.opt.Rfloate_RmagError in Rmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.opt.RfloatS/GSExtractor Star/galaxy classifier (1)meta.idfloatAreaObject areaarcsec**2phys.areafloatz? Redshiftsrc.redshiftdoublenullableSpLink to existing spectrameta.ref.urlchar