2025ApJS..277...25H -
Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 277, 25 (2025/March-0)
The FAST H I 21 cm Absorption Blind Survey. II. Statistical Exploration for Associated and Intervening Systems.
HU W., WANG Y., LI Y., YANG W., XU Y., WU F., PEN U.-L., WANG J., JING Y., XU C., CHEN Q., ZHENG Z., LI D., ZHU M., ZHANG X. and CHEN X.
Abstract (from CDS):
We present an extragalactic H I 21 cm absorption lines catalog from a blind search at z ≤ 0.35, using drift-scan data collected in 1325.6 hr by the ongoing Commensal Radio Astronomy Fast Survey and FAST All Sky H I Survey, which spans a sky area of 6072.0 deg2 and covers 84,533 radio sources with a flux density greater than 12 mJy. Fourteen previously identified H I absorbers and 20 newly discovered H I absorbers were detected, comprising 15 associated systems, 10 intervening systems, and nine systems with undetermined classifications. Through spectral stacking, the mean peak optical path, mean velocity-integrated optical path, mean FWHM, and mean H I column density are measured to be 0.47 and 0.30; 27.19 and 4.36 km s–1; 42.61 and 9.33 km s–1; 0.49 and 0.08 Ts × 1020 cm–2 K–1, for the associated and intervening samples, respectively. Statistical analysis also reveals that associated systems tend to be hosted by red (g - r > 0.7) galaxies at lower redshifts, whereas galaxies hosting intervening H I absorption are typically found at higher redshifts and are of a bluer (g - r ≤ 0.7) type. A noticeable difference is observed in the positions of foregrounds, backgrounds of intervening systems, and high-redshift and low-redshift associated systems on the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer color-color diagram. All identified foreground sources in our sample have W1 - W2 magnitudes below 0.8, suggesting no active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In contrast, backgrounds of intervening systems tend to have W1 - W2 magnitudes above 0.8, indicating AGN presence. For associated absorption, most low-redshift (z ≤ 0.5) systems show W1 - W2 values below 0.8, while higher-redshift associated absorption (z > 0.5) displays a broader range of W1 - W2 values.
Abstract Copyright:
© 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
Journal keyword(s):
Galaxy evolution - Galaxy spectroscopy - Extragalactic radio sources - Interstellar line absorption
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