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Molecular absorption lines at high redshift

Tommy Wiklind, Francoise Combes

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9712139

Abstract

The four known molecular absorption line systems at redshifts z=0.25--0.89 are discussed. Two of the systems originate in the galaxy hosting the `background' AGN, while in two cases the absorption occurs in truely intervening galaxies. Indirect evidence for the existence of very small scale structure in the molecular ISM is presented. A new absorption line at z=0.89 towards PKS1830--211 opens up interesting possibilities to accurately derive the mass of the lensing galaxy.

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