IUE survey of H I Ly{alpha} absorption. I. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Diplas A.
  2. Savage B.D.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We measure Galactic interstellar neutral hydrogen column densities by analyzing archival interstellar Ly{alpha} absorption line data toward 554 B2 and hotter stars observed at high resolution with the IUE satellite. This study more than doubles the number of lines of sight with measures of N(H I) based on Ly{alpha}. We have included the scattered light background correction algorithm of Bianchi and Bohlin (1984A&A...134...31B) in our data reduction. We use the correlation between the Balmer discontinuity [c_1_] index and the stellar Ly{alpha} absorption in order to assess the effects of stellar Ly alpha contamination. Approximately 40% of the B stars with measured [c_1_] index, exhibit serious stellar Ly{alpha} contamination. Table 1 contains the derived values of the interstellar N(H I) for 393 stars with at most small amounts of stellar contamination. Table 2 lists the observed values of total N(H I) for 161 stars with suspected stellar Ly alpha contamination and/or uncertain stellar parameters.

Keywords
  1. visible-astronomy
  2. Wide-band photometry
  3. redshifted
  4. h-i-line-emission
  5. ultraviolet-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
1994ApJS...93..211D
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/93/211
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/93/211
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.20930211

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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/93/211
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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/93/211/table2?

History

1999-02-27T13:05:45Z
Resource record created
1999-02-27T13:05:45Z
Created
2013-02-27T06:16:44Z
Updated

Contact

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CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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