Description
We describe a search for MgII(2796, 2803) absorption lines in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra of QSOs whose lines of sight pass within impact parameters {rho}~200kpc of galaxies with photometric redshifts of z=0.46-0.6 and errors {Delta}z~0.05. The galaxies selected have the same colors and luminosities as the Luminous Red Galaxy (LRG) population previously selected from the SDSS. A search for MgII lines within a redshift interval of +/-0.1 of a galaxy's photometric redshift shows that absorption by these galaxies is rare: the covering fraction is f({rho})~10%-15% between {rho}=20kpc and {rho}=100kpc, for MgII lines with rest equivalent widths of W_r_>=0.6{AA}, falling to zero at larger {rho}. There is no evidence that W_r_ correlates with impact parameter or galaxy luminosity.
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