Low Redshift Lyman Alpha absorbers and their Connection with Galaxies

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We review the ongoing debate about the relationship between low redshift Lyman Alpha absorbers and luminous galaxies. In particular, we discuss the difficulty of `assigning' a particular absorber to a particular galaxy, and consider methods of circumventing this problem. We also provide a status report on an ongoing project collecting more data to address this issue, and show some results for a close together pair of QSOs providing two adjacent lines of sight through the inter-galactic medium.
6 pages, 1 figure, uses newpasp.sty, to appear in "Extragalactic Gas at Low Redshift", eds. J.S. Mulchaey & J.T. Stocke, ASP Conference Series, in press (2002)

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