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寻找致密射电源内禀HI 21 cm和OH 18 cm吸收

A Search for Intrinsic HI 21 cm and OH 18 cm Absorption Toward Compact Radio Sources

Kathryn Grasha, Jeremy Darling, Alberto Bolatto, Adam K. Leroy, John T. Stocke

摘要:

本文介绍了用绿岸望远镜对红移范围为0.02< z <3.8的145个致密射电源的HI 21 cm和OH 18 cm内禀吸收进行大规模搜索的结果。我们重新检测HI 21厘米吸收对六个已知的吸收系统,但没有检测到新的HI或OH吸收在102个无干扰源。79个源以前没有观测到HI 21 cm吸收。我们恢复的平均光学深度限制为$τ_{3σ}<0.023$的所有未检测的调查。我们的结果不支持以前的研究中发现的高内禀吸收率在低红移致密射电源。然而,我们的结果支持Curran等人(2008)提出的假设,即高紫外(UV)光度的活动星系核(AGN)不显示HI 21 cm的内禀吸收,证实了$L_{\rm UV} = 10^{23}$ W Hz $^{-1}$的阈值,超过该阈值,我们的内禀吸收分数为零(54个来源)。HI吸收系统的UV光度效应的确切性质仍然不明确。我们还发现1.4GHz射电光度或源的大小与21厘米吸收探测率之间没有统计相关性。我们在我们的调查归因于缺乏内在的吸收的紫外光光度效应所造成的光学选择偏差和降低的列密度的灵敏度随着红移的增加,由于较低的无线电连续通量密度,高射频干扰,和较高的望远镜系统温度在低频。

英文摘要:

We present the results of a large search for intrinsic HI 21 cm and OH 18 cm absorption in 145 compact radio sources in the redshift range 0.02< z <3.8 with the Green Bank Telescope. We re-detect HI 21 cm absorption toward six known absorption systems but detect no new HI or OH absorption in 102 interference-free sources. 79 sources have not previously been observed for HI 21 cm absorption. We recover a mean optical depth limit of $τ_{3σ}<0.023$ for all the non-detections in the survey. Our results do not support the high intrinsic absorption rates found by previous studies in compact radio sources at low redshift. Our results do, however, support the hypothesis proposed by Curran et al. (2008) that high ultraviolet (UV) luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGN) do not show intrinsic HI 21 cm absorption, confirming a threshold of $L_{\rm UV} = 10^{23}$ W Hz$^{-1}$, above which our intrinsic absorption fraction is zero (54 sources). The exact nature of the UV luminosity effect on HI absorption systems remains ambiguous. We additionally find no statistical correlation between the 1.4 GHz radio luminosity or the source size and the 21~cm absorption detection rate. We attribute the lack of intrinsic absorption in our survey to the UV luminosity effect caused by an optical selection bias and a decreased column density sensitivity with increasing redshift due to lower radio continuum flux densities, high radio frequency interference, and higher telescope system temperatures at low frequencies.

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