HST/COS observations of a new population of associated QSO absorbers

Sowgat Muzahid, Raghunathan Srianand, Nahum Arav +2

(Abridged) We present a sample of new population of associated absorbers, detected through Ne VIII λλ770,780 absorption, in HST/COS spectra of intermediate redshift (0.45 < z < 1.2…