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$z \approx 0.32$星系的中性氢气体含量

Neutral hydrogen (HI) gas content of galaxies at $z \approx 0.32$

Jonghwan Rhee, Philip Lah, Frank H. Briggs, Jayaram N. Chengalur, Matthew Colless, Steven P. Willner, Matthew L. N. Ashby, Olivier Le Fèvre

摘要:

我们利用巨型米波射电望远镜(GMRT)的观测资料,在$z \approx 0.32$的VIMOS VLT深度巡天(VVDS)14 h场中探测场星系的中性氢(HI)气体含量。由于个别星系的HI辐射太微弱,在这个红移检测,我们使用的HI光谱叠加技术,使用已知的光学位置和红移的165个星系在我们的样本,共同添加他们的HI光谱,从而获得平均HI质量的星系。对165个星系的叠加HI测量表明,95%的中性气体存在于蓝色的恒星形成星系中。在这些星系中,恒星质量较低的星系比质量较大的星系更富含气体。我们应用体积校正我们的HI测量,以评估HI气体密度在$z \approx 0.32$作为$Ω_{HI}=(0.50\pm0.18) \times 10^{-3}$在宇宙临界密度的单位。该值与z < 0.4时的先前结果非常一致,表明中性氢气密度在最后一个$\sim 4$ Gyr上没有演化。然而,$z \approx 0.32$的气体密度比$z \sim 5$的气体密度低至少两倍。

英文摘要:

We use observations made with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to probe the neutral hydrogen (HI) gas content of field galaxies in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) 14h field at $z \approx 0.32$. Because the HI emission from individual galaxies is too faint to detect at this redshift, we use an HI spectral stacking technique using the known optical positions and redshifts of the 165 galaxies in our sample to co-add their HI spectra and thus obtain the average HI mass of the galaxies. Stacked HI measurements of 165 galaxies show that 95 per cent of the neutral gas is found in blue, star-forming galaxies. Among these galaxies, those having lower stellar mass are more gas-rich than more massive ones. We apply a volume correction to our HI measurement to evaluate the HI gas density at $z \approx 0.32$ as $Ω_{HI}=(0.50\pm0.18) \times 10^{-3}$ in units of the cosmic critical density. This value is in good agreement with previous results at z < 0.4, suggesting no evolution in the neutral hydrogen gas density over the last $\sim 4$ Gyr. However the $z \approx 0.32$ gas density is lower than that at $z \sim 5$ by at least a factor of two.

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