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Dec 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...201.7903z&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #79.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.1234
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We present HI observations of the environment of nine nearby Ly-α absorbers. The goal was to probe regions of space around absorbers to look for HI emission (of any kind) in order to understand better their relation to the large-scale structure of the nearby Universe (< 7000 km s-1). We probed volumes ranging from 1.0o X 1.0o X 600 km s-1 to 1.5o X 1.5o X 1300 km s-1 around every absorber with detection limits going from MHI = 5 X 107 Msun in the best cases to MHI = 2 X 108 Msun in the worst. In terms of column densities, we can go down to NHI=3 X 1019 cm-2 in some cases. In total, we detect five HI emitters, all galaxies, with four of them actually being in the environment of a common absorber. Among the five galaxies that we detect, three are uncataloged. We also combine these results with previous investigations of six other Ly-α absorbing systems to address such questions as: What is our detection rate of HI compared to unbiased HI surveys? Does detected HI mass correlate with the equivalent width of the Ly-α absorption line? How does the large-scale environment affect HI detection? How do observations compare with simulations?
Giovanardi S.
Hibbard John Eugene
Stocke John T.
van Gorkom Jacqueline H.
Zamojski Michel A.
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