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Article Dans Une Revue Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Année : 2018

Revealing H i gas in emission and absorption on pc to kpc scales in a galaxy at z ∼ 0.017

N Gupta
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R. Srianand
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J S Farnes
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Y Pidopryhora
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M. Vivek
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Z. Paragi
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P. Noterdaeme
T Oosterloo
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We present a detailed study of the quasar–galaxy pair: J1243+4043–UGC 07904. The sight line of the background quasar (z q = 1.5266) passes through a region of the galaxy (z g = 0.0169) at an impact parameter of 6.9 kpc with high metallicity (0.5 Z) and negligible dust extinction. We detect H I 21-cm absorption from the foreground galaxy at arcsecond and milliarcsecond scales. For typical cold neutral medium (CNM) temperatures in the Milky Way, this 21-cm absorber can be classified as a damped Lyα absorber (DLA). We infer the harmonic mean spin temperature of the gas to be ∼400 K and for a simple two-phase medium we estimate the CNM fraction to be f CNM = 0.27. This is remarkably consistent with the CNM fraction observed in the Galaxy and less than that of high-redshift DLAs. The quasar exhibits a core-jet morphology on milliarcsecond scales, corresponding to an overall extent of ∼9 pc at z g. We show that the size of CNM absorbing clouds associated with the foreground galaxy is >5 pc and they may be part of cold gas structures that extend beyond ∼35 pc. Interestingly, the rotation measure of quasar J1243+4043 is higher than any other source in samples of quasars with high-z DLAs. However, we do not find any detectable differences in rotation measures and polarization fraction of sight lines with or without high-z (z ≥ 2) DLAs or low-z (z ≤ 0.3) 21-cm absorbers. Finally, the foreground galaxy UGC 07904 is also part of a galaxy group. We serendipitously detect H I 21-cm emission from four members of the group, and an ∼80 kpc long H I bridge connecting two of the other members. The latter, together with the properties of the group members, suggests that the group is a highly interactive environment.
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hal-01788602 , version 1 (09-05-2018)

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N Gupta, R. Srianand, J S Farnes, Y Pidopryhora, M. Vivek, et al.. Revealing H i gas in emission and absorption on pc to kpc scales in a galaxy at z ∼ 0.017. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018, 476 (2), pp.2432 - 2445. ⟨10.1093/mnras/sty384⟩. ⟨hal-01788602⟩
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