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    • Upper limits on O VI emission fromVoyager observations

      Jayant Murthy

      Volume 23 Issue 1-2 March 2002 pp 23-26

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    • Keywords

       

      Galaxy; halo ISM; general

    • Abstract

       

      We have examined 426Voyager fields distributed across the sky for O VI (γγ 1032/1038 å) emission from the Galactic diffuse interstellar medium. No such emission was detected in any of our observed fields. Our most constraining limit was a 90% confidence upper limit of 2600 photons cm−2 sr−1 s−1 on the doublet emission in the direction (l, b) = (117.3, 50.6). Combining this with an absorption line measurement in nearly the same direction allows us to place an upper limit of 0.01 cm−3 on the electron density of the hot gas in this direction. We have placed 90% confidence upper limits of less than or equal to 10,000 photons cm−2 sr−1 s−1 on the O VI emission in 16 of our 426 observations.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      Jayant Murthy1

      1. Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore - 560 034, India

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      Published
      6 March 2002

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