Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 457, Issue 1, Pages 903-916Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw016
Keywords
galaxies: abundances; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; intergalactic medium; galaxies: ISM; quasars: absorption lines
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Funding
- ESO science visitor programme
- CNRS
- CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales)
- US National Science Foundation [AST/1108830]
- NASA [NNX14AG74G]
- NASA/STScI grant [13733]
- OCEVU Labex [ANR-11-LABX-0060]
- A*MIDEX project - 'Investissements d'Avenir' French government [ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02]
- ERC [278594]
- European Research Council (ERC) [278594] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1108830] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [684170, NNX14AG74G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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The use of background quasars provides a powerful tool to probe the cool gas in the circum-galactic medium of foreground galaxies. Here, we present new observations with SINFONI and X-Shooter of absorbing-galaxy candidates at z = 0.7-1. We report the detection with both instruments of the Ha emission line of one sub-damped Lyman a (sub-DLA) at z(abs) = 0.941 87 with logN(H I) = 19.38(-0.15)(+0.10) towards SDSS J002133.27+004300.9. We estimate the star formation rate: SFR = 3.6 +/- 2.2 M-circle dot yr(-1) in that system. A detailed kinematic study indicates a dynamical mass M-dyn = 10(9.9 +/- 0.4) M-circle dot and a halo mass M-halo = 10(11.9 +/- 0.5) M-circle dot. In addition, we report the [O II] detection with X-Shooter of another DLA at z(abs) = 0.7402 with logN(H I) = 20.4 +/- 0.1 towards Q0052+0041 and an estimated SFR of 5.3 +/- 0.7 M-circle dot yr(-1). Three other objects are detected in the continuum with X-Shooter but the nature and redshift of two of these objects are unconstrained due to the absence of emission lines, while the third object might be at the redshift of the quasar. We use the objects detected in our whole N(H I)-selected SINFONI survey to compute the metallicity difference between the galaxy and the absorbing gas, delta(HI) (X), where a positive (negative) value indicates infall (outflow). We compare this quantity with the quasar line-of-sight alignment with the galaxy's major (minor) axis, another tracer of infall (outflow). We find that these quantities do not correlate as expected from simple assumptions. Additional observations are necessary to relate these two independent probes of gas flows around galaxies.
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