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G. G. Kacprzak
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We have used GIM2D to quantify the morphological properties of 40 intermediate redshift MgII absorption-selected galaxies (0.03<Wr(2796)<2.9 Ang), imaged with WFPC-2/HST, and compared them to the halo gas properties measured form HIRES/Keck and UVES/VLT quasar spectra. We find that as the quasar-galaxy separation, D, increases the MgII equivalent decreases with large scatter, implying that D is not the only physical parameter affecting the distribution and quantity of halo gas. Our main result shows that inclination correlates with MgII absorption properties after normalizing out the relationship (and scatter) between the absorption properties and D. We find a 4.3 sigma correlation between Wr(2796) and galaxy inclination, normalized by impact parameter, i/D. Other measures of absorption optical depth also correlate with i/D at greater than 3.2 sigma significance. Overall, this result suggests that MgII gas has a co-planer geometry, not necessarily disk-like, that is coupled to the galaxy inclination. It is plausible that the absorbing gas arises from tidal streams, satellites, filaments, etc., which tend to have somewhat co-planer distributions. This result does not support a picture in which MgII absorbers with Wr(2796)<1A are predominantly produced by star-formation driven winds. We further find that; (1) MgII host galaxies have quantitatively similar bulge and disk scale length distribution to field galaxies at similar redshifts and have a mean disk and bulge scale length of 3.8kpc and 2.5kpc, respectively; (2) Galaxy color and luminosity do not correlate strongly with absorption properties, implying a lack of a connection between host galaxy star formation rates and absorption strength; (3) Parameters such as scale lengths and bulge-to-total ratios do not significantly correlate with the absorption parameters, suggesting that the absorption is independent of galaxy size or mass.
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