CIV column densities in z<2.5 QSOs Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. D'Odorico V.
  2. Calura F.
  3. Cristiani S.
  4. Viel M.
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    CDS
Abstract

The cosmic evolution of the metal content of the intergalactic medium puts stringent constraints on the properties of galactic outflows and on the nature of UV background. In this paper, we present a new measure of the redshift evolution of the mass density of CIV, {OMEGA}_CIV_, in the interval 1.5~<z~<4 based on a sample of more than 1500 CIV lines with column densities 10^12^~<N(CIV)~<10^15^cm^-2^. This sample more than doubles the absorption redshift path covered in the range z<2.5 by previous samples. The result shows a significant increase of {OMEGA}_CIV_ towards the lower redshifts at variance with the previously pictured constant behaviour.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. redshifted
  3. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010MNRAS.401.2715D
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/401/2715
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74012715

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History

2010-07-24T15:36:02Z
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2010-07-24T15:36:02Z
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