Towards a direct detection of warm gas in galactic haloes at cosmological distances

被引:8
作者
Cirkovic, MM [1 ]
Bland-Hawthorn, J
Samurovic, S
机构
[1] SUNY Stony Brook, Dept Phys & Astron, Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA
[2] Astron Observ, YU-11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
[3] Anglo Australian Observ, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
[4] Publ Observ, YU-11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
[5] Univ Trieste, Dipartimento Astron, I-34131 Trieste, Italy
关键词
techniques : spectroscopic; galaxies : haloes; galaxies : ISM;
D O I
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02645.x
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Recent highly sensitive detections of line emission from extended gas in the local Universe demonstrate the feasibility of detecting Ha-emitting galactic haloes out to z similar to 1. We determine the form of the surface brightness versus redshift dependence, which takes into account UV background evolution. Successful detections will have a major impact on a wide range of fields, in particular the source of ionization in QSO absorption systems.
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页码:L15 / L18
页数:4
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