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射电星系和类星体的红移HI和OH吸收

Redshifted HI and OH absorption in radio galaxies and quasars

S. J. Curran, M. T. Whiting, M. T. Murphy, J. K. Webb, C. Bignell, A. G. Polatidis, T. Wiklind, P. Francis, G. Langston

摘要:

从调查红移HI 21厘米和OH 18厘米吸收的样品的射电星系和类星体的主机,我们检测HI在三个10和OH在没有14个来源,获得了有用的数据。正如我们最近的结果所预期的那样,所有21厘米的探测都发生在紫外连续发光度L < 10^23 W/Hz的光源中。在这些“中等”的光度,我们也得到四个非检测,虽然,证实了类型1和类型2的对象之间的均分检测,这近50%的检测率不能归因于活动星系核(AGN)的统一计划。我们所有的探测都是在z < 0.67的红移处,这与我们微弱的光源选择相结合,对紫外发光物体产生了偏见。在两个高红移z ~ 3.6 - 3.8的射电星系中没有探测到21厘米的重要性(超过活动星系核类型)得到了进一步的支持,这两个星系都是2型天体,而L > 10^23 W/Hz。我们的21厘米的检测与以前发表的,给了总共8个(相关和干预)HI吸收源搜索和未检测到的OH。使用检测到的21厘米线强度的限制,我们发现,这八个可能只有两个被搜索足够深的OH,虽然即使这些是边际。

英文摘要:

From a survey for redshifted HI 21-cm and OH 18-cm absorption in the hosts of a sample of radio galaxies and quasars, we detect HI in three of the ten and OH in none of the fourteen sources for which useful data were obtained. As expected from our recent result, all of the 21-cm detections occur in sources with ultra-violet continuum luminosities of L < 10^23 W/Hz. At these "moderate" luminosities, we also obtain four non-detections, although, as confirmed by the equipartition of detections between the type-1 and type-2 objects, this near-50% detection rate cannot be attributed to unified schemes of active galactic nuclei (AGN). All of our detections are at redshifts of z < 0.67, which, in conjunction with our faint source selection, biases against UV luminous objects. The importance of ultra-violet luminosity (over AGN type) in the detection of 21-cm is further supported by the non-detections in the two high redshift z ~ 3.6 - 3.8 radio galaxies, which are both type-2 objects, while having L > 10^23 W/Hz. Our 21-cm detections in combination with those previously published, give a total of eight (associated and intervening) HI absorbing sources searched and undetected in OH. Using the detected 21-cm line strengths to normalise the limits, we find that only two of these eight may have been searched sufficiently deeply in OH, although even these are marginal.

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