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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 727, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/727/1/47
关键词
galaxies: clusters: general; galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; galaxies: groups: general; galaxies: halos; quasars: absorption lines
资金
- LTSA NASA [NNG05GE26G]
- Marie Curie grant [PIRG06-GA-2009-256434]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
- American Museum of Natural History
- Astrophysical Institute Potsdam
- University of Basel
- University of Cambridge
- Case Western Reserve University
- University of Chicago
- Drexel University
- Fermilab
- Institute for Advanced Study
- Japan Participation Group
- Johns Hopkins University
- Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
- Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
- Korean Scientist Group
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA)
- Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
- New Mexico State University
- Ohio State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Portsmouth
- Princeton University
- United States Naval Observatory
- University of Washington
We describe a search for Mg II lambda lambda 2796, 2803 absorption lines in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra of QSOs whose lines of sight pass within impact parameters rho similar to 200 kpc of galaxies with photometric redshifts of z = 0.46-0.6 and errors Delta z similar to 0.05. The galaxies selected have the same colors and luminosities as the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) population previously selected from the SDSS. A search for Mg II lines within a redshift interval of +/- 0.1 of a galaxy's photometric redshift shows that absorption by these galaxies is rare: the covering fraction is f(rho) similar or equal to 10%-15% between rho = 20 kpc and rho = 100 kpc, for Mg II lines with rest equivalent widths of W-r >= 0.6 angstrom, falling to zero at larger.. There is no evidence that Wr correlates with impact parameter or galaxy luminosity. Our results are consistent with existing scenarios in which cool Mg II-absorbing clouds may be absent near LRGs because of the environment of the galaxies: if LRGs reside in high-mass groups and clusters, either their halos are too hot to retain or accrete cool gas, or the galaxies themselves-which have passively evolving old stellar populations-do not produce the rates of star formation and outflows of gas necessary to fill their halos with Mg II-absorbing clouds. In the rarer cases where Mg ii is detected, however, the origin of the absorption is less clear. Absorption may arise from the little cool gas able to reach into cluster halos from the intergalactic medium, or from the few star-forming and/or AGN-like LRGs that are known to exist.
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