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ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL
Volume 136, Issue 6, Pages 2886-2896Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/136/6/2886
Keywords
galaxies: ISM; ISM: evolution; ISM: kinematics and dynamics; radio lines: ISM; galaxies: statistics; quasars: absorption lines
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- EU Marie Curie International Reintegration [MIRG-CT-6-2005-013556]
- STFC [PP/E00105X/1, PP/D000920/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [PP/D000920/1, PP/E00105X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We demonstrate in this paper that the velocity widths of the neutral gas in damped Ly alpha (DLA) systems are inconsistent with these systems originating in gas disks of galaxies, similar to those seen in the local universe. We examine the gas kinematics of local galaxies using the high-quality HI 21 cm data from the HI Nearby Galaxies Survey and make a comparison with the velocity profiles measured in the low-ionization metal lines observed in DLAs at high redshifts. The median velocity width of z = 0 HI gas above the DLA column density limit of N-HI = 2 x 10(20) cm(-2) is approximately 30 km s(-1), whereas the typical value in DLAs is a factor of 2 higher. We argue that the gas kinematics at higher redshifts are increasingly influenced by gas that is not participating in ordered rotation in cold disks, but is more likely associated with tidal gas related to galaxy interactions or processes such as superwinds and outflows. An analysis of the HI in the local interacting starburst galaxy M 82 shows that the velocity widths in this galaxy are indeed similar to what is seen in DLAs.
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