Molecular gas at intermediate redshifts

Kanekar, N. ; Chengalur, J. N. (2002) Molecular gas at intermediate redshifts Astronomy & Astrophysics, 381 (3). L73-L76. ISSN 0004-6361

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20011697

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20011697

Abstract

We present Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) observations of OH absorption in B3 1504+377 (z ∼ 0.673) and PKS 1413+135 (z ∼ 0.247). OH has now been detected in absorption towards four intermediate redshift systems, viz. the lensing galaxies towards B 0218+357 (z ∼ 0.685; Kanekar et al. 2001) and 1830-211 (z ∼ 0.886; Chengalur et al. 1999), in addition to the two systems listed above. All four systems also give rise to well studied millimetre wavelength molecular line absorption from a host of molecules, including HCO+. Comparing our OH data with these millimetre line transitions, we find that the linear correlation between NOH and NHCO+ found in molecular clouds in the Milky Way (Liszt & Lucas 1996) persists out to z ∼ 1. It has been suggested (Liszt & Lucas 1999) that OH is a good tracer of H2, with NH2 /NOH ≈ 107 under a variety of physical conditions. We use this relationship to estimate NH2 in these absorbers. The estimated NH2 is >∼1022 in all four cases and substantially different from estimates based on CO observations.

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