FUSE survey of OVI in the disk of the Milky Way Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Bowen D.V.
  2. Jenkins E.B.
  3. Tripp T.M.
  4. Sembach K.R.
  5. Savage B.D.
  6. Moos H.W.,Oegerle W.R.
  7. Friedman S.D.
  8. Gry C.
  9. Kruk J.W.
  10. Murphy E.
  11. Sankrit R.,Shull J.M.
  12. Sonneborn G.
  13. York D.G.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

To probe the distribution and physical characteristics of interstellar gas at temperatures T~3x10^5^K in the disk of the Milky Way, we have used the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) to observe absorption lines of OVI{lambda}1032 toward 148 early-type stars situated at distances >1kpc. After subtracting off a mild excess of OVI arising from the Local Bubble, combining our new results with earlier surveys of OVI, and eliminating stars that show conspicuous localized X-ray emission, we find an average OVI midplane density n_0_=1.3x10^-8^cm^-3^. The density decreases away from the plane of the Galaxy in a way that is consistent with an exponential scale height of 3.2kpc at negative latitudes or 4.6kpc at positive latitudes.

Keywords
  1. interstellar-medium
  2. ultraviolet-astronomy
  3. milky-way-galaxy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008ApJS..176...59B
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/176/59
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21760059

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History

2009-11-11T15:08:41Z
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2009-11-11T15:08:41Z
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