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用澳大利亚平方公里阵列探路者(ASKAP)成功地搜索了0.4 < z <1.0星系中21 cm HI的干涉吸收

A successful search for intervening 21 cm HI absorption in galaxies at 0.4 < z <1.0 with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)

Elaine M. Sadler, Vanessa A. Moss, James R. Allison, Elizabeth K. Mahony, Matthew T. Whiting, Helen M. Johnston, Sara L. Ellison, Claudia del P. Lagos, Bärbel S. Koribalski

摘要:

我们使用澳大利亚平方公里阵列探路者(ASKAP)射电望远镜搜索干预21厘米中性氢(HI)的吸收沿视线到53个明亮的无线电连续谱源。我们的观测对HI自旋温度低于300-500 K的冷气体中典型的阻尼莱曼α吸收体(DLAs)的HI柱密度敏感。六碟的布尔迪工程测试阵列(BETA)和十二天线的早期科学阵列(ASKAP-12)分别覆盖了HI线的红移$0.4<z<1.0$和$0.37<z<0.77$的频率范围。观测到的53个射电源中有50个具有可靠的光学红移,总红移路径为$Δz$ = 21.37。这是一个光谱上没有目标的调查,没有事先假设的位置线在红移空间。检测到四个中间HI系,其中两个是新的。在每种情况下,估计的HI柱密度高于DLA限制HI自旋温度高于50-80 K,我们估计的DLA数密度在红移$z\sim0.6$的$n(z)=0.19\substack{+0.15 \\ -0.09}$。该值略高于光学DLA研究中观察到的具有红移的$n(z)$的一般趋势。虽然目前的样本很小,但它代表了一个重要的概念证明,为更大的21厘米首次大吸收调查在HI(FLASH)项目将进行与完整的36天线ASKAP望远镜,探测总红移路径$Δz\sim\,50,000$。

英文摘要:

We have used the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope to search for intervening 21 cm neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption along the line of sight to 53 bright radio continuum sources. Our observations are sensitive to HI column densities typical of Damped Lyman Alpha absorbers (DLAs) in cool gas with an HI spin temperature below about 300-500 K. The six-dish Boolardy Engineering Test Array (BETA) and twelve-antenna Early Science array (ASKAP-12) covered a frequency range corresponding to redshift $0.4<z<1.0$ and $0.37<z<0.77$ respectively for the HI line. Fifty of the 53 radio sources observed have reliable optical redshifts, giving a total redshift path $Δz$ = 21.37. This was a spectroscopically-untargeted survey, with no prior assumptions about the location of the lines in redshift space. Four intervening HI lines were detected, two of them new. In each case, the estimated HI column density lies above the DLA limit for HI spin temperatures above 50-80 K, and we estimate a DLA number density at redshift $z\sim0.6$ of $n(z)=0.19\substack{+0.15 \\ -0.09}$. This value lies somewhat above the general trend of $n(z)$ with redshift seen in optical DLA studies. Although the current sample is small, it represents an important proof of concept for the much larger 21cm First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH) project to be carried out with the full 36-antenna ASKAP telescope, probing a total redshift path $Δz\sim\,50,000$.

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