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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 473, Issue 2, Pages 1879-1894Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx2461
Keywords
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: ISM; radio lines: galaxies
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- Australian Indian Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) grant
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) [CE110001020]
- European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, Paranal, Chile [070.A-9007, 177.A-0837]
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Energy
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Japanese Monbukagakusho
- Max Planck Society
- Higher Education Funding Council for England
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We use observations made with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to probe the neutral hydrogen (H I) gas content of field galaxies in the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) 14h field at z approximate to 0.32. Because the H I emission from individual galaxies is too faint to detect at this redshift, we use an H I spectral stacking technique using the known optical positions and redshifts of the 165 galaxies in our sample to co-add their H I spectra and thus obtain the average H I mass of the galaxies. Stacked H I measurements of 165 galaxies show that greater than or similar to 95 per cent of the neutral gas is found in blue, star-forming galaxies. Among these galaxies, those having lower stellar mass are more gas rich than more massive ones. We apply a volume correction to our H I measurement to evaluate the H I gas density at z approximate to 0.32 as Omega(H) (I) = (0.50 +/- 0.18) x 10(-3) in units of the cosmic critical density. This value is in good agreement with previous results at z < 0.4, suggesting no evolution in the neutral hydrogen gas density over the last similar to 4Gyr. However the z approximate to 0.32 gas density is lower than that at z similar to 5 by at least a factor of two.
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