The connection between metallicity and metal-line kinematics in (sub-)damped Lyman-alpha systems

Details The connection between metallicity and metal-line kinematics in (sub-)damped Lyman-alpha systems The connection between metallicity and metal-line kinematics in (sub-)damped Lyman-alpha systems

2007-01-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701028v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.376:673-681,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 2 figures (3 EPS files). Accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11457.x

A correlation between the metallicity, [M/H], and rest-frame MgII equivalent width, EW, is found from 49 DLAs and strong sub-DLAs drawn from the literature over the redshift range 0.20.7A, the correlation remains at >3 sigma significance. Since the MgII2796 transition is predominantly saturated in DLAs (which always have EW greater than 0.3A), EW is far more sensitive to the kinematic spread of the metal velocity components across the absorption profile than it is to [M/H]. Thus, the observed [M/H]--EW correlation points to a strong link between the absorber metallicity and the mechanism for producing and dispersing the velocity components. We also note that approximately half of the 13 known molecular hydrogen absorbers have very high EW and very broad velocity structures which show characteristics usually associated with outflows. Follow-up ultraviolet- and blue-sensitive high-resolution spectra of high-EW systems, initially identified in low-resolution spectra, may therefore yield a large number of new H_2 discoveries.

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