HI absorption in a gravitational lens at $z \sim 0.7645$

Details HI absorption in a gravitational lens at $z \sim 0.7645$ HI absorption in a gravitational lens at $z \sim 0.7645$

2003-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311021v1

Astron.Astrophys. 412 (2003) L29

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20031676

We have used the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope to detect HI 21cm absorption at $z \sim 0.7645$ in the gravitational lens system towards PMN J0134-0931. The 21cm profile has two broad components, with peak optical depths of $0.047 \pm 0.007$ and $0.039 \pm 0.007$, at heliocentric redshifts $0.76470 \pm 0.00006$ and $0.76348 \pm 0.00006$, respectively. The redshift of the stronger component matches that of CaII H and K absorption detected earlier. The absorption has a total velocity width of $\sim 500$ km/s (between nulls) and an equivalent width of $7.1 \pm 0.08$ km/s. This would imply a total HI column density of $2.6 \pm 0.3 \times 10^{21}$ per cm$^2$, for a spin temperature of 200 K and a covering factor of unity. The high estimated HI column density is consistent with the presence of large amounts of dust at the lens redshift; the intervening dust could be responsible for the extremely red colour of the background quasar.

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