Extended galaxy halo gas through HI and OVI Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Johnson S.D.
  2. Chen H.-W.
  3. Mulchaey J.S.
  4. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a study of extended galaxy halo gas through HI and OVI absorption over two decades in projected distance at z~0.2. The study is based on a sample of 95 galaxies from a highly complete (>80 percent) survey of faint galaxies (L>0.1L*) with archival quasar absorption spectra and 53 galaxies from the literature. A clear anticorrelation is found between HI (OVI) column density and virial radius normalized projected distance, d/Rh. Strong HI (OVI) absorption systems with column densities greater than 10^14.0^ (10^13.5^)cm^-2^ are found for 48 of 54 (36 of 42) galaxies at d<Rh indicating a mean covering fraction of <{kappa}_HI_>=0.89 (<{kappa}_OVI_>=0.86). OVI absorbers are found at d~Rh, beyond the extent observed for lower ionization species. At d/Rh=1-3 strong HI (OVI) absorption systems are found for only 7 of 43 (5 of 34) galaxies (<{kappa}_HI_>=0.16 and <{kappa}_OVI_>=0.15). Beyond d=3Rh, the HI and OVI covering fractions decrease to levels consistent with coincidental systems. The high completeness of the galaxy survey enables an investigation of environmental dependence of extended gas properties. Galaxies with nearby neighbours exhibit a modest increase in Ovi covering fraction at d>Rh compared to isolated galaxies (<{kappa}_OVI_~0.13 versus 0.04) but no excess HI absorption. These findings suggest that environmental effects play a role in distributing heavy elements beyond the enriched gaseous haloes of individual galaxies. Finally, we find that differential HI and OVI absorption between early- and late-type galaxies continues from d<Rh to d~3Rh.

Keywords
  1. quasars
  2. galaxies
  3. spectroscopy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015MNRAS.449.3263J
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/449/3263
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/3263
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74493263

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History

2016-01-21T15:36:00Z
Resource record created
2016-01-21T15:36:00Z
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2024-08-14T20:21:13Z
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