Abstract Details
| Name: Nissim Kanekar Affiliation: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Conference ID: ASI2015_1036 Title : The Nature of High-redshift Damped Lyman-alpha Systems Authors and Co-Authors : Abstract Type : Oral Abstract Category : Abstract : Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers (DLAs) are the high-redshift counterparts of today's normal gas-rich galaxies, with high HI column densities, N_HI >= 2e20 per cm^2. Despite their acknowledged importance in the context of galaxy evolution and thirty years of research, the nature of high-redshift DLAs remains an open issue. In this talk, I will describe results from a slew of our studies over the last decade, probing the ISM temperature phases of DLAs, their atomic and molecular gas masses, and their star formation rates. |