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Observations of Interstellar O VI Absorption at 3 km/s Resolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

E.B. Jenkins ,
U.J. Sofia  and
G. Sonneborn
E.B. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory Princeton, NJ 08544-1001, USA
U.J. Sofia
Affiliation:
Dept. Astron. & Astrophys. Villanova University Villanova, PA 19085, USA
G. Sonneborn
Affiliation:
Code 681 NASA Goddard Space Fight Center Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

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For studies of diffuse gases in the temperature range 105 – 106K, observations of O VI absorption in the spectra of background stars provide an important supplement to information from surveys of soft x-ray emission. We report here the first observations of O VI absorption recorded at a resolution of 3 km s−1 for the stars 15 Mon and HD 64760. Both stars are behind regions that are suspected to be old supernova remnants. The observations were made with the Interstellar Medium Absorption Profile Spectrograph (IMAPS) during its flight on the ORFEUS-SPAS II mission in late 1996.

Type
Session 1: Plasma and Fresh Nucleosynthesis Phenomena
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 188: The Hot Universe , 1998 , pp. 271 - 272
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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