Statistical Properties of DLAs and sub-DLAs

Details Statistical Properties of DLAs and sub-DLAs Statistical Properties of DLAs and sub-DLAs

2001-07-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107125v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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6 pages, 4 figures, in "Chemical Enrichment of Intracluster and Intergalactic medium", Proceedings of the Vulcano Workshop, Ma

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Quasar absorbers provide a powerful observational tool with which to probe both galaxies and the intergalactic medium up to high redshift. We present a study of the evolution of the column density distribution, f(N,z), and total neutral hydrogen mass in high-column density quasar absorbers using data from a recent high-redshift survey for damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) and Lyman limit system (LLS) absorbers. Whilst in the redshift range 2 to 3.5, ~90% of the neutral HI mass is in DLAs, we find that at z>3.5 this fraction drops to only 55% and that the remaining 'missing' mass fraction of the neutral gas lies in sub-DLAs with N(HI) 10^{19} - 2 * 10^{20} cm^{-2}.

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