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Galaxies Probing Galaxies At High Resolution: Co-Rotating Gas Associated With A Milky Way Analog At Z = 0.4, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Alison L. Coil, John Moustakas, Christy A. Tremonti, Paul H. Sell, Alexander J. Mendez, Ryan C. Hickox, Greg H. Rudnick
Galaxies Probing Galaxies At High Resolution: Co-Rotating Gas Associated With A Milky Way Analog At Z = 0.4, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, Alison L. Coil, John Moustakas, Christy A. Tremonti, Paul H. Sell, Alexander J. Mendez, Ryan C. Hickox, Greg H. Rudnick
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We present results on gas flows in the halo of a Milky-Way-like galaxy at z = 0.413 based on high-resolution spectroscopy of a background galaxy. This is the first study of circumgalactic gas at high spectral resolution toward an extended background source (i.e., a galaxy rather than a quasar). Using long-slit spectroscopy of the foreground galaxy, we observe spatially extended Hα emission with a circular rotation velocity v circ ≈ 270 km s−1. Using echelle spectroscopy of the background galaxy, we detect and absorption lines at an impact parameter ρ= 27 kpc that are blueshifted from systemic …