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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 692, Issue 1, Pages 677-683Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/677
Keywords
dust, extinction; Galaxy: evolution
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- CXC [G07-8080]
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We analyzed Chandra observations of three gravitational lenses, SBS 0909+523, FBQS 0951+2635, and B 1152+199, to measure the differential X-ray absorption and the dust-to-gas ratio of the lens galaxies. We successfully detected the differential X-ray absorption in SBS 0909+523 and B 1152+199, and failed to detect it in FBQS 0951+2635 due to the dramatic drop in its flux from the ROSAT epoch. These measurements significantly increase the sample of dust-to-gas ratio measurements in cosmologically distant, normal galaxies. Using the larger sample, we obtain an average dust-to-gas ratio of E(B - V)/NH = (1.5 +/- 0.5) x 10(-22) mag cm(2) atoms(-1) with an estimated intrinsic dispersion in the ratio of similar or equal to 40%. This average dust-to- gas ratio is consistent with our previous measurement and the average Galactic value of 1.7 x 10(-22) mag cm(2) atoms(-1), and the estimated intrinsic dispersion is also consistent with the 30% observed in the Galaxy. A larger sample size is still needed to improve the measurements and to begin studying the evolution in the ratio with cosmic time. We also detected X-ray microlensing in SBS 0909+523 and significant X-ray variability in FBQS 0951+2635.
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