Damped Lyman-Alpha Galaxies
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Some results from an imaging program to identify low-redshift (0.09<z<1.63) damped Lyman-alpha (DLA) galaxies are presented. The standard paradigm that was widely accepted a decade ago, that DLA galaxies are the progenitors of luminous disk galaxies, is now being seriously challenged. The indisputable conclusion from imaging studies at low redshift is that the morphological types of DLA galaxies are mixed and that they span a range in luminosities and surface brightnesses.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009096,
title = {Damped Lyman-Alpha Galaxies},
author = {D. Turnshek and S. Rao and W. Lane and E. Monier and D. Nestor and J. Bergeron and A. Smette},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009096},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in "Gas and Galaxy Evolution", ASP Conference Series, eds. Hibbard, Rupen, and van Gorkum. 3 pages, 2 postscript figures, 1 color, newpasp.sty included