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Ca II and Na I Quasar Absorption-line Systems in an Emission-selected Sample of SDSS DR7 Galaxy/Quasar Projections. I. Sample Selection

  • Authors: B. Cherinka and R. E. Schulte-Ladbeck

Cherinka & Schulte-Ladbeck 2011 The Astronomical Journal 142 122.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Plot of quasar impact parameter vs. SDSS r-band Petrosian radius, for the list of absorbers. The line at 38 kpc represents the impact parameter out to which low- z DLAs have been found by Rao et al. (2003). The three curved lines indicate the ratio of the impact parameter to the r-band Petrosian radius (1, 2, and 5, respectively). The vertical striping apparent in the data at low Petrosian radii is a result of multiple QSO sightlines being found within the 100 kpc search radius of a low-redshift galaxy. The absorbers marked with "E" and "Z" represent the four extragalactic absorbers, and the Zych absorber, discussed in Section 5.

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