Low and High Ionization Absorption Properties of Mg II Absorption-Selected Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts. II. Taxonomy, Kinematics, and Galaxies

Details Low and High Ionization Absorption Properties of Mg II Absorption-Selected Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts. II. Taxonomy, Kinematics, and Galaxies Low and High Ionization Absorption Properties of Mg II Absorption-Selected Galaxies at Intermediate Redshifts. II. Taxonomy, Kinematics, and Galaxies

2000-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005586v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted: The Astrophysical Journal; Work based upon data presented in Paper I [astro-ph/0005585]

Scientific paper

10.1086/317120

[Abridged] We examine a sample of 45 Mg II absorption-selected systems over the redshift range 0.4 to 1.4. Mg II and Fe II absorption profiles were observed at a resolution of ~6 km/s with HIRES/Keck. Lyman-alpha and C IV data were measured in archival FOS/HST spectra (~230 km/s). We perform a multivariate analysis of W(MgII), W(FeII), W(CIV) and W(Lya) (rest-frame) equivalent widths and the Mg II kinematic spread. We find five categories of Mg II absorbers: "Classic", "C IV-deficient", "Single/Weak", "Double", and "DLA/HI-Rich". There is a strong connection between low-ionization kinematics and the location of an absorber on the W(CIV)-W(MgII) plane. In most absorbers a significant fraction of the C IV arises in a phase separate from Mg II. Many of the C IV profiles are resolved in the FOS spectra due to velocity structure.. For 16 galaxies, we compare the available absorption-line properties (taken from Churchill et al. 2000, Paper I) to the galaxy properties but find no significant (greater than 3-sigma) correlations, although several suggestive trends are apparent. We compare the locations of our intermediate redshift absorbers on the W(CIV)-W(MgII) plane with those of lower and higher redshift data taken from the literature and find evidence for evolution that is connected with the Mg II kinematics. We discuss the potential of using the above categorizations of absorbers to understand the evolution in the underlying physical processes giving rise to the gas and governing its ionization phases and kinematics.

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