Extragalactic Gas at Low Redshift: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, California, USA, 4-6 April 2001John S. Mulchaey, John T. Stocke Annotation Proceedings of an April 2002 workshop held at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, bringing together some 70 international specialists to discuss low redshift QSO absorbers and their relationship to galaxies. Forty-two contributions are arranged in sections on low- absorber properties and absorber-galaxy relationships, simulations, HI studies, high velocity clouds, galactic winds, the intergalactic medium, the ionizing background radiation, and astronomical tools. A sampling of topics: the evolution of neutral gas in the universe as traced by damped Lyman alpha systems, surveying the whole sky for extragalactic neutral hydrogen, mapping metal-enriched high velocity clouds to very low HI column densities, galactic superwinds circa 2001, and using X-ray shadowing to detect intergalactic baryons. Indexed by author only. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) |
Contents
HST Continues to Open Up the Nearby Universe | 13 |
The Evolution of Neutral Gas in the Universe as Traced by Damped Lyman | 24 |
Properties of LowRedshift Damped Lyman Alpha Galaxies | 34 |
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absorption lines absorption systems ASP Conference Series Astronomy background baryons Bland-Hawthorn Briggs clouds cluster column density component dark matter Davé detected disk distance DLAS dN/dz dwarf emission equivalent width evolution extended gaseous envelopes Figure flux fraction Galactic Galactic halo Group h-1 kpc halos Heckman high redshift High Velocity Clouds HIPASS HVCs impact parameter intergalactic intergalactic medium ionization ISBN kinematics km s¹ km/s Lanzetta lines of sight low redshift LSB galaxies luminosity function Lya absorbers Lya forest Lyman Magellanic Stream measured metallicity MgII absorbers MNRAS Mulchaey & John neutral hydrogen number density Observatory observed optical panel Penton photoionization photons quasar range Ray Weymann regions reionization rest-frame sample scales Sembach shows Shull simulations spectra spectrum star formation starburst Steidel stellar STIS structure superwinds surface brightness survey Telescope Tripp University Wakker Wavelength Weymann X-ray Zwaan