Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-10-19
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett. 364 (2005) L51-L55
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS letters
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1745-3933.2005.00104.x
We have investigated the effect of spatial resolution on determining pencil-beam like velocity widths and column densities in galaxies. Three 21-cm datasets are used, the HIPASS galaxy catalogue, a subset of HIPASS galaxies with ATCA maps and a high-resolution image of the LMC. Velocity widths measured from 21-cm emission in local galaxies are compared with those measured in intermediate redshift Damped Lyman alpha (DLA) absorbers. We conclude that spatial resolution has a severe effect on measuring pencil-beam like velocity widths in galaxies. Spatial smoothing by a factor of 240 is shown to increase the median velocity width by a factor of two. Thus any difference between velocity widths measured from global profiles or low spatial resolution 21-cm maps at z=0 and DLAs at z>1 cannot unambiguously be attributed to galaxy evolution. The effect on column density measurements is less severe and the values of dN/dz from local low-resolution 21-cm measurements are expected to be overestimated by only ~10 per cent.
Ryan-Weber Emma V.
Staveley--Smith Lister
Webster Rachel L.
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