SDSS 2175{AA} extinction bump candidates Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Jiang P.
  2. Ge J.
  3. Zhou H.
  4. Wang J.
  5. Wang T.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We report detections of 39 2175{AA} dust extinction bump candidates associated with strong MgII absorption lines at z~1-1.8 on quasar spectra in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR3. These strong MgII absorption line systems are detected among 2951 strong MgII absorbers with a rest equivalent width W_r_{lambda}2796>1.0{AA} at 1.0<z<1.86, which is part of a full sample of 7421 strong MgII absorbers compiled by Prochter et al. (2006, Cat. J/ApJ/639/766). The redshift range of the absorbers is chosen to allow the 2175{AA} extinction features to be completely covered within the SDSS spectrograph operation wavelength range. An upper limit of the background quasar emission redshift at z=2.1 is set to prevent the Ly{alpha} forest lines from contaminating the sensitive spectral region for the 2175{AA} bump measurements. A total of 12 absorbers are detected with 2175{AA} bumps at a 5{sigma} level of statistical significance, 10 are detected at a 4{sigma} level, and 17 are detected at a 3{sigma} level. Most of the candidate bumps in this work are similar to the relatively weak 2175{AA} bumps observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud LMC2 supershell rather than the strong ones observed in the Milky Way.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. redshifted
  3. spectroscopy
  4. line-intensities
  5. extinction
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2011ApJ...732..110J
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2012-12-05T14:30:13Z
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2012-12-05T14:30:13Z
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