On the possible environmental effect in distributing heavy elements beyond individual gaseous haloes
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Abstract
We present a study of extended galaxy halo gas through H i and O vi absorption over two decades in projected distance at z ≈ 0.2. The study is based on a sample of 95 galaxies from a highly complete (>80 per cent) survey of faint galaxies (L > 0.1L*) with archival quasar absorption spectra and 53 galaxies from the literature. A clear anticorrelation is found between H i (O vi) column density and virial radius normalized projected distance, d/Rh. Strong H i (O vi) absorption systems with column densities greater than 1014.0 (1013.5) cm−2 are found for 48 of 54 (36 of 42) galaxies at d < Rh indicating a mean covering fraction of |$\langle \kappa _{\rm H\,\small {i}}\rangle =0.89$| (|$\langle \kappa _{\rm O\,\small {vi}}\rangle =0.86$|). O vi absorbers are found at d ≈ Rh, beyond the extent observed for lower ionization species. At d/Rh = 1–3 strong H i (O vi) absorption systems are found for only 7 of 43 (5 of 34) galaxies (|$\langle \kappa _{\rm H\,\small {i}}\rangle =0.16$| and |$\langle \kappa _{\rm O\,\small {vi}}\rangle =0.15$|). Beyond d = 3 Rh, the H i and O vi covering fractions decrease to levels consistent with coincidental systems. The high completeness of the galaxy survey enables an investigation of environmental dependence of extended gas properties. Galaxies with nearby neighbours exhibit a modest increase in O vi covering fraction at d > Rh compared to isolated galaxies (|$\kappa _{\rm O\,\small {vi}}\approx 0.13$| versus 0.04) but no excess H i absorption. These findings suggest that environmental effects play a role in distributing heavy elements beyond the enriched gaseous haloes of individual galaxies. Finally, we find that differential H i and O vi absorption between early- and late-type galaxies continues from d < Rh to d ≈ 3 Rh.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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