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This talk focuses on exploring the connection between Ly absorbers and galaxies.
The theorist view of gas in the low z universe is based on the filamentary structures that are evident in simulations based on the CDM paradigm. But we can ask: what is gas in local universe doing?
The observer's view of gas in the low-z universe is based on the LyLower column density absorbers are very interesting. In particular, their relationship to galaxies is less well known and they are useful test of models. For example, we can ask: How large are halos? How do metals get out into IGM from the disks where they are manufactured by stars?
On particular example is that of the VLA and WSRT search for HI emission
conducted by
van Gorkom et al. (1996, Astron. J. 112, 1397). They found absorption
clearly identified in a group of galaxies. This absorber is also seen in HI with =17000 km s
. The absorber has N
cm
.
Right now there are only about 100 quasars bright enough to study with HST.
Another example is the low z absorption seen towards 3C273,
near the edge of the Virgo cluster.McLin et al. have detected 10 cm
metal lines.
There is a dI of dwarf post starburst at a projected distance of 71 kpc
with cz=1556 km/s, M
-14.5.
We must tie our understanding of low column density gas in the local universe to the distribution of higher column density gas in galaxies
Desh | You mentioned "large scale" structure; How large is large? |
Jessica | It depends on the particular group/region. 3C273 is near Virgo so you'd like to go over 500 kpc/ 1Mpc scales. You want to ask: are you in a filament or void? |
Jon | Saying you want to map out LSS in gas and in galaxies? HIPASS would say that distributions are similar. So what is new? |
Jessica | Yes, but you find new galaxies not previously known/catalogued, especially very low surface brightness ones. They do tend to follow the same structures outlined by higher surface brightness galaxies but their correlation amplitude is lower. |
Lister | The correlation function of HI selected galaxies is same as that of late types. The question might be: is it different in clusters/groups from very low density regions? |