J/A+A/616/A158ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/616/A158doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36160158CDSZou S.Petitjean P.Noterdaeme P.Ledoux C.Krogager J.-K.,Fathivavsari H.Srianand R.Lopez S.2018-09-10T08:00:07Z2018-09-07T07:58:02ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frquasarsspectroscopyWe study a sample of 17 z>1.5 absorbers selected based on the presence of strong neutral carbon (CI) absorption lines in Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectra and observed with the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope (ESO-VLT) spectrograph X-shooter. We derive metallicities, depletion onto dust, and extinction by dust, and analyse the absorption from MgII, MgI, CaII, and NaI that are redshifted into the near infrared wavelength range. We show that most of these CI absorbers have high metallicity and dust content. We detect nine CaII absorptions with W(CaI 3934)>0.23{AA} out of 14 systems where we have appropriate wavelength coverage. The observed equivalent widths are similar to what has been measured in other lower redshift surveys of CaII systems. We detect ten NaI absorptions in the 11 systems where we could observe this absorption. The median equivalent width (W(NaI 5891)=0.68{AA}) is larger than what is observed in local clouds with similar HI column densities but also in z<0.7 CaII systems detected in the SDSS. The systematic presence of NaI absorption in these CI systems strongly suggests that the gas is neutral and cold, maybe part of the diffuse molecular gas in the interstellar medium (ISM) of high-redshift galaxies. Most of the systems (12 out of 17) have W(MgII 2796)>2.5{AA} and six of them have logN(HI)<20.3, with the extreme case of J1341+1852 that has log N(HI)=18.18. The MgII absorptions are spread over more than {Delta}v~400km/s for half of the systems; three absorbers have {Delta}v>500km/s. The kinematics are strongly perturbed for most of these systems, which indicates that these systems probably do not arise in quiet disks and must be close to regions with intense star-formation activity and/or are part of interacting objects. All this suggests that a large fraction of the cold gas at high redshift arises in disturbed environments.2018A&A...616A.158Zhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/616/A158CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toII/294 : The SDSS Photometric Catalog, Release 7 (Adelman-McCarthy+, 2009)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/616/A158https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/616/A158http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/616/A158https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/616/A158https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/616/A158http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/A+A/616/A158GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/A+A/616/A158/ci-xhs (Xshooter sub from DR7, published in Ledoux et al. (2015A&A...580A...8L))https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/616/A158/ci-xhs?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/616/A158/ci-xhs?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/A+A/616/A158/ci-xhs?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true34.0255417-0.35135280.0055555555555555566/4107 4851 8867 17294 17727 18765 18769 19407 26362 26411 26440 26958 27320 28024 28157 28185 28344https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/A+A/616/A158?format=asciidefaultJ/A+A/616/A158/ci-xhsXshooter sub from DR7, published in Ledoux et al. (2015A&A...580A...8L)SimbadNameSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.idcharPrgmIDProgram ID(s) (1)meta.id;obscharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintNameName (JHHMM+DDMM)meta.id;meta.maincharRAJ2000Right ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainPlateSDSS Plate numbermeta.idintMJDSDSS MJD numberdmeta.idintFiberSDSS Fiber numbermeta.idintzemEmission redshiftsrc.redshiftfloatzabsAbsorption redshiftsrc.redshiftfloatspShow the VIS-UVB-NIR spectrummeta.ref.urlcharFollow-up[Xshooter] Follow-upmeta.id;instrcharSloanDisplay the online SDSS data for this QSOmeta.ref.urlchar