Hydrogen And Deuterium In The Local Interstellar Medium.
Creators: name: Murthy, Jayant
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: interstellar medium
astronomy
deuterium

description: In this work we report on the results of a series of IUE observations of interstellar HI and DI Ly alpha absorption against the chromospheric Lyalpha emission of the nearby late -type stars alpha Cen B(1.3 pc), epsilon Eri (3.3 pc), Procyon (3.5 pc), Altair (5.1 pc), Capella (13.2 pc), and HR 1099 (33 pc). From these observations we have derived the density, velocity dispersion, and bulk velocity of the neutral hydrogen along the line of sight to each of these stars. We have also placed lower limits on the deuterium to hydrogen (D/H) ratio towards the same stars. Our IUE results are generally consistent with previous observations of the same stars with the Copernicus satellite showing that our modelling procedure is independent of stellar variations over a period of several years. The HI absorption profile towards Altair shows a broad saturated core and steep line wings, consistent with a multicomponent interstellar medium in that direction. The bulk velocities towards the other stars are consistent with a bulk flow from the approximate direction of the galactic center but do show local variations from a uniform flow, possibly indicating a complicated velocity structure even in the solar neighbourhood. Interstellar deuterium is detected towards every star except Altair and the derived values for the D/H ratio are consistent with those previously found with Copernicus. In particular, we confirm the strong lower limit of 1.9 times 10^{-5} on the D/H ratio found towards Capella and we also place a lower limit of 1.5 times 10 ^{-5} on the D/H ratio towards alpha Cen B. Although an interstellar D/H ratio of 2 times 10^ {-5} is consistent with all the observations of late-type stars, the lower D/H ratios found towards several hot stars may indicate real variations in the D/H ratio in the local interstellar medium. Finally, we discuss the reality of a step in the cosmic background and of several galactic emission lines found by Auriemma et al. (1984) and show that, in fact, they are both artifacts of the data and of the analysis.
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