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CaII and DLA absorption line systems dust, metals and star formation at 0.4z1.3

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 6 0 7 4 8 1 v 1 2 1 J u l 2 0 0 6 Ca ii and DLA ABSORPTION LINE SYSTEMS: DUST, METALS AND STAR FORMATION AT 0.4 z 1.3 VIVIENNE WILD1, PAUL HEWETT2, MAX PETTINI2 1Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarzschild Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany 2Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK Absorption line studies of galaxies along the line-of-sight to distant quasars allow a direct observational link between the properties of the extended gaseous disk/halo and of the star forming region of galaxies. In these proceedings we review recent work on Ca ii absorbers detected in the SDSS at 0.4 z 1.3 which, because of their dust content and chemical properties, may lie spatially closer to the central host galaxy than most DLAs. We present di- rect evidence for the presence of star formation, through observation of the [O ii]λλ3727,3730 emission line, in both Ca ii absorbers and Mg ii-selected Damped-Lyman-α (DLA) systems. The measured SFR from light falling within the SDSS fibre apertures (corresponding to physi- cal radii of 6?9h?1 kpc) is 0.11?0.48M⊙yr ?1 for the Ca ii-absorbers and 0.11?0.14 M⊙yr ?1 for the Mg ii-selected DLAs. The contribution of both Ca ii absorbers and DLAs to the total observed star formation rate density, ρ??, in the redshift range 0.4 z 1.3, is small, 10%. Our result contrasts with recent conclusions, based on the Schmidt law, that DLA absorbers can account for the majority of the total observed ρ?? in the same redshift range. 1 Introduction The strong intervening hydrogen and metal absorption lines observed in quasar spectra are generally thought to be caused by gas associated with galaxies along the line-of-sight. Damped Lyman-α (DLA) systems are the most extreme subset of these absorbers, defined through their high column densities, N(H i) 2× 1020 cm?2, of neutral hydrogen gas. In principle, galaxies detected through the absorption of background quasar