Deuterium Toward Two Milky Way Disk Stars: Probing Extended Sight Lines with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer

Abstract

We have carried out an investigation of the abundance of deuterium along two extended sight lines through the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Galactic disk. The data include Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of HD 195965 (B1Ib) and HD 191877 (B0V), as well as Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) observations of HD 195965. The distances to HD 195965 and HD 191877, derived from spectroscopic parallax, are 794+/-200 pc and 2200+/-550 pc, respectively, making these the longest Galactic disk sight lines in which deuterium has been investigated with FUSE. The higher Lyman lines clearly show the presence of deuterium. We use a combination of curve of growth analyses and line profile fitting to determine the DI abundance toward each object. We also present column densities for OI and NI toward both stars, and HI measured from Ly-alpha absorption in the STIS spectrum of HD 195965. The D/H ratios along these sight lines are lower than the average value found with FUSE for the local interstellar medium (37 to 179 pc from the Sun). These observations lend support to earlier detections of variation in D/H over distances greater than a few hundred pc. The D/H and O/H values measured along these sight lines support the expectation that the ISM is not well mixed on distances of ~1000 pc.

32 pages, 18 figures. Abridged abstract. Accepted for publication in ApJ. Uses emulateapj5.sty

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