ATCA search for 21 cm emission from a candidate damped Ly-$α$ absorber at z = 0.101

Details ATCA search for 21 cm emission from a candidate damped Ly-$α$ absorber at z = 0.101 ATCA search for 21 cm emission from a candidate damped Ly-$α$ absorber at z = 0.101

2000-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0012079v1

2001, A & A, 367, 46.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 4 figures. Accepted by Astronomy and Astrophysics

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20000420

We report a deep search for 21 cm emission/absorption from the $z \sim 0.101$ candidate damped Lyman-$\alpha$ system towards PKS 0439-433, using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The spectrum shows a weak absorption feature --- at the $3.3 \sigma$ level --- which yields a lower limit of 730 K on the spin temperature of the system. No HI emission was detected: the $3\sigma$ upper limit on the HI mass of the absorber is $2.25 \times 10^9 M_{\odot}$, for a velocity spread of $\sim 70$ km s$^{-1}$. The low HI mass and the high spin temperature seem to rule out the possibility that the absorber is a large gas-rich spiral galaxy.

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