The Spread of Metals into the Low-Redshift Intergalactic Medium

We investigate the association between galaxies and metal-enriched and metal-deficient absorbers in the local universe (\(z < 0.16\)) using a large compilation of FUV spectra of bright AGN targets observed with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In this homogeneous sample of 18 O VI detections at \(N_{\rm O\,{VI}}\geq13.5~\mathrm{cm}^{-2}\) and 18 non-detections at \(N_{\rm O\,{VI}}