| dc.identifier.citation | M Glowacki, J R Allison, V A Moss, E K Mahony, E M Sadler, J R Callingham, S L Ellison, M T Whiting, J D Bunton, A P Chippendale, I Heywood, D McConnell, W Raja, M A Voronkov, An ASKAP survey for H I absorption towards dust-obscured quasars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 489, Issue 4, November 2019, Pages 4926–4943, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz2452 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Obscuration of quasars by accreted gas and dust, or dusty intervening galaxies, can cause active galactic nuclei (AGN) to be missed in optically selected surveys. Radio observations can overcome this dust bias. In particular, radio surveys searching for H I absorption inform us on how the AGN can impact on the cold neutral gas medium within the host galaxy, or the population of intervening galaxies through the observed line of sight gas kinematics. We present the results of an H I absorption line survey at 0.4 < z < 1 towards 34 obscured quasars with the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) commissioning array. We detect three H I absorption lines, with one of these systems previously unknown. Through optical follow-up for two sources, we find that in all detections the H I gas is associated with the AGN, and hence that these AGN are obscured by material within their host galaxies. | en_US |
