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This paper briefly reviews QSO absorption-line observations that constrain the properties of the low-redshift intergalactic medium, with emphasis on systems detected in the O VI doublet. Some comments are made on the baryonic content of and physical conditions of the IGM and their evolution with redshift. Radiatively cooling gas models are in good agreement with the Doppler parameters and column densities in the current sample of intervening O VI absorbers, which suggests that a substantial fraction of the O VI systems are tracing shock-heated gas cooling from an initial temperature ≥ 106 K.
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Tripp, T.M. (2003). Exploring the Low-Redshift Cosmic Web with O VI Absorption Lines. In: Rosenberg, J.L., Putman, M.E. (eds) The IGM/Galaxy Connection. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 281. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0115-1_9
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