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2001ApJ...557L..47M - Astrophys. J., 557, L47-L50 (2001/August-2)

Upper limits on O VI emission from Voyager observations.

MURTHY J., HENRY R.C., SHELTON R.L. and HOLBERG J.B.

Abstract (from CDS):

We have examined 426 Voyager fields distributed across the sky for O VI λλ1032, 1038 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.

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Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: Halo - ISM: General

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