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Title:
New Hubble Space Telescope Spectra of QSO PG 1718+4807: No Evidence for Strong Deuterium Absorption
Authors:
Kirkman, David; Tytler, David; O'Meara, John M.; Burles, Scott; Lubin, Dan; Suzuki, Nao; Carswell, Robert F.; Turner, Michael S.; Wampler, E. Joseph
Affiliation:
AA(; Visiting Astronomer, W. M. Keck Observatory, which is a joint facility of the University of California, California Institute of Technology, and NASA.; Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, MS 0424, La Jolla, CA 92093-0424 .), AB(; Visiting Astronomer, W. M. Keck Observatory, which is a joint facility of the University of California, California Institute of Technology, and NASA.; Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, MS 0424, La Jolla, CA 92093-0424 .), AC(; Visiting Astronomer, W. M. Keck Observatory, which is a joint facility of the University of California, California Institute of Technology, and NASA.; Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, MS 0424, La Jolla, CA 92093-0424 .), AD(; Visiting Astronomer, W. M. Keck Observatory, which is a joint facility of the University of California, California Institute of Technology, and NASA.; Experimental Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Box 500, Batavia, IL 60510-0500.), AE(; Visiting Astronomer, W. M. Keck Observatory, which is a joint facility of the University of California, California Institute of Technology, and NASA.; Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, MS 0424, La Jolla, CA 92093-0424 .), AF(; Visiting Astronomer, W. M. Keck Observatory, which is a joint facility of the University of California, California Institute of Technology, and NASA.; Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California, San Diego, MS 0424, La Jolla, CA 92093-0424 .), AG(; Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, England, UK.), AH(; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637-1433.), AI(; 2386 Empire Grade Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95060-9701.)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 559, Issue 1, pp. 23-28. (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
09/2001
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Cosmology: Observations, Galaxies: Intergalactic Medium, Galaxies: Quasars: Absorption Lines, quasars: individual (PG 1718+4807)
DOI:
10.1086/322357
Bibliographic Code:
2001ApJ...559...23K

Abstract

The zabs~0.701 absorption system toward QSO PG 1718+4807 is the only example of a QSO absorption system which might have a deuterium/hydrogen ratio approximately 10 times the value found toward other QSOs. We have obtained new Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope of the Lyα and Lyman limit regions of the system. These spectra give the redshift and velocity dispersion of the neutral hydrogen, which produces most of the observed absorption. The Lyα line is too narrow to account for all of the observed absorption. It was previously known that extra absorption is needed on the blue side of the main H I near the expected position of deuterium. We do not find evidence in the current data that the extra absorption is entirely deuterium and find that it is more likely that some of the extra absorption is contaminating H. Until new data can be found that can independently constrain the line parameters of the potential contaminating H, it will not be possible to measure D/H in this system. Some uncertainty persists because we have a low signal-to-noise ratio and the extra absorption-be it deuterium or hydrogen-is heavily blended with the Lyα absorption from the main hydrogen absorption. Based on observations obtained with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope obtained by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555.
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