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用FAST对河外OH吸收的试验性搜索

A pilot search for extragalactic OH absorption with FAST

Zheng Zheng, Di Li, Elaine M. Sadler, James R. Allison, Ningyu Tang

摘要:

OH吸收是目前唯一可行的方法来检测在宇宙学距离的非masing星系中的OH分子。到目前为止,只有6个这样的探测到z>0.05,因此很难对遥远星系中的OH柱密度进行统计上的严格限制。我们利用500米口径球面射电望远镜(FAST)对8个关联和1个干预HI 21-cm吸收体进行了试点OH吸收调查。我们能够将相对于HI的OH丰度([OH]/[HI])限制在10^-6 ~ 10^-8之间,使红移z在[0.1919,0.2241]范围内。尽管没有单独的检测,但将三个不含RFI的相关吸收剂堆叠起来,可以得到灵敏的OH柱密度3 σ上限~ 1.57 x 10^14(Tx/10 K)(1/fc)cm^-2,相当于[OH]/[HI] < 5.45 x 10^-8。结合档案数据,我们表明,相关的吸收剂有一个稍低的OH丰度比干预吸收剂。我们的结果是一致的趋势,减少OH丰度减少红移。

英文摘要:

OH absorption is currently the only viable way to detect OH molecules in non-masing galaxies at cosmological distances. There have been only 6 such detections at z>0.05 to date and so it is hard to put a statistically robust constraint on OH column densities in distant galaxies. We carried out a pilot OH absorption survey towards 8 associated and 1 intervening HI 21-cm absorbers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We were able to constrain the OH abundance relative to HI ([OH]/[HI]) to be lower than 10^-6 ~ 10^-8 for redshifts z within [0.1919, 0.2241]. Although no individual detection was made, stacking three associated absorbers free of RFI provides a sensitive OH column density 3-sigma upper-limit ~ 1.57 x 10^14 (Tx/10K)(1/fc) cm^-2, which corresponds to a [OH]/[HI] < 5.45 x 10^-8. Combining with archival data, we show that associated absorbers have a slightly lower OH abundance than intervening absorbers. Our results are consistent with a trend of decreasing OH abundance with decreasing redshift.

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