Session 3. QSO Absorbers and the IGM

Display, Monday, January 8, 2001, 9:30am-7:00pm, Exhibit Hall

3.01 The Evolution of Ly\alpha Absorbing Galaxies

S. M. Linder (Cardiff University)

3.02 \gamma-rays from Intergalactic Shocks

M. Matuszewski, R.D. Blandford (California Institute of Technology)

3.03 A Cluster of MgII Absorbers in a Large Quasar Group at 1.20 < z < 1.38

G.M. Williger (NASA/GSFC), L.E. Campusano (U. de Chile), R.G. Clowes (U. Central Lancashire, UK)

3.04 Quasars as Absorption Probes of Two Deep Pencil-beam Galaxy Surveys

C. E. Petry, D. H. McIntosh, C. D. Impey (Steward Observatory)

3.05 A Triple Phase Strong MgII Absorber at z ~ 1

J. Ding, C.W. Churchill, J.C. Charlton, S.G. Zonak (Penn State)

3.06 The Remarkable Mixed Ionization Double Kinematics of a z ~ 1 MgII Absorber

S. G. Zonak, C. W. Churchill, J. C. Charlton, J. Ding (Penn State)

3.07 Superbubbles in the Spectrum of Q1331+170 at z~0.7?

N.A. Bond, C.W. Churchill, J.C. Charlton (Penn State), S.S. Vogt (UCO/Lick)

3.08 CIRPASS Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectroscopy of Damped Lyman-\alpha Systems

A. J. Bunker, A. M. N. Ferguson, R. A. Johnson, R. G. McMahon, I. R. Parry, M. Pettini, R. S. Somerville (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK), A. Aragón-Salamanca (University of Nottingham, UK)

3.09 New Metallicity Measurements of z > 3 Damped Lya Systems

J.X. Prochaska (Carnegie Observatories), A.M. Wolfe, E.J. Gawiser (UC San Diego)

3.10 Evolution of High Column Density Absorbers in Spectra of QSO at z > 4 Selected from DPOSS

S. Castro, S.G. Djorgovski, R. Brunner, A. Mahabal, R.R. Gal (Caltech), R.R. de Carvalho (ON/IAG/Brazil), DPOSS Team

3.11 Damped Lyman-alpha absorption from a nearby Low Surface Brightness Galaxy

D. V. Bowen, T. M. Tripp, E. B. Jenkins (Princeton Observatory)

3.12 Low Ionization Gas in Galaxies: Keck HIRES Spectra of Ten QSO Absorption Systems with Ca II and Na I Lines

V. T. Junkkarinen, R. D. Cohen (UCSD/CASS)

3.13 FUSE Observations of He II Absorption in the IGM Toward HE2347-4342: Opacity and Fluctuations

J.M. Shull, M. Giroux, J. Tumlinson (Colorado), J. Kriss (STScI), L. Cowie, A. Songaila (Hawaii), W. Zheng, H.W. Moos, W. Oegerle, A. Davidsen, S. Friedman, J. Kruk (JHU), J. Hutchings, D. Morton (NRC/HIA), R. Green (NOAO), E. Jenkins (Princeton), J.-M. Deharveng (MarsLab)

3.14 FUSE Observations of He II Absorption in the IGM toward HE2347-4342: Spectral Features

G. Kriss (STScI), W. Zheng, W. Oegerle (JHU), J.M. Shull, M. Giroux (Colorado), L. Cowie, A. Songaila (Hawaii), S. Friedman, A. Davidsen, J. Kruk, H.W. Moos, K. Sembach (JHU), R. Green (NOAO), J. Hutchings, D. Morton (NRC/HIA), E. Jenkins, T. Tripp (Princeton), J.-M. Deharveng (LAS), FUSE Team

3.15 A Detection of O~V \lambda630 Å\ in Lyman Forest Absorbers

R.C. Telfer, W. Zheng, A.F. Davidsen (Johns Hopkins University), G.A. Kriss (Space Telescope Science Institute)

3.16 FUSE and STIS Observations of Intervening O VI Absorption Line Systems in the Spectrum of PG 0953+415

B. D. Savage (U. Wisconsin-Madison), K. R. Sembach (JHU), T. M. Tripp (Princeton U.), P. Richter (U. Wisconsin-Madison), E. B. Jenkins (Princeton U.)

3.17 FUSE Observations of Intergalactic and Interstellar Gas Toward 3C 273

K.R. Sembach, J.C. Howk, W.R. Oegerle (JHU), B.D. Savage (U. Wisconsin), J.M. Shull, M. Giroux (U. Colorado), FUSE Science Team

3.18 The Very Local Ly\alpha Forest: New STIS/G140M Results

S. V. Penton, J. T. Stocke (Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy (CASA) & University of Colorado - Boulder (CU)), J. M. Shull (CASA/CU & JILA (National Institute of Standards and Technology))