Interstellar NaI, TiII & CaIIK obs. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Hunter I.
  2. Smoker J.V.
  3. Keenan F.P.
  4. Ledoux C.
  5. Jehin E.
  6. Cabanac R.,Melo C.
  7. Bagnulo S.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present an analysis of interstellar NaI ({lambda}_air_=3302.37 and 3302.98{AA}), TiII ({lambda}_air_=3383.76{AA}) and CaIIK ({lambda}_air_=3933.66{AA}) absorption features for 74 sightlines towards O- and B-type stars in the Galactic disc. The data were obtained from the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph Paranal Observatory Project (UVES POP), at a spectral resolution of 3.75km/s and with mean signal-to-noise ratios per pixel of 260, 300 and 430 for the NaI, TiII and CaII observations, respectively. Interstellar features were detected in all but one of the TiII sightlines and all of the CaII sightlines. The dependence of the column density of these three species with distance, height relative to the Galactic plane, HI column density, reddening and depletion relative to the solar abundance has been investigated. We also examine the accuracy of using the NaI column density as an indicator of that for HI. In general, we find similar strong correlations for both Ti and Ca, and weaker correlations for Na. Our results confirm the general belief that Ti and Ca occur in the same regions of the interstellar medium (ISM) and also that the TiII/CaII ratio is constant over all parameters. We hence conclude that the absorption properties of Ti and Ca are essentially constant under the general ISM conditions of the Galactic disc.

Keywords
  1. interstellar-medium
  2. ultraviolet-astronomy
  3. spectroscopy
  4. early-type-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2006MNRAS.367.1478H
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.73671478

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2006-12-08T07:08:01Z
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