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We present a neutral hydrogen-selected absorption-line survey of gas with HI column densities 15<log N(HI)<19 at z<1 using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. Our main aim is to determine the metallicity distribution of these absorbers. Our sample consists of 224 absorbers selected on the basis of their HI absorption strength. Here we discuss the properties of our survey and the immediate empirical results. We find singly and doubly ionized metal species and HI typically have similar velocity profiles, implying they probe gas in the same or similar environments. The column density ionic ratios (e.g., CII/CIII, OI/CII) indicate the gas in these absorbers is largely ionized, and the ionization conditions are quite comparable across the sampled N(HI) range. The Doppler parameters of the HI imply T<50,000 K on average, consistent with the gas being photoionized. The MgII column densities span >2 orders of magnitude at any given N(HI), indicating a wide range of metallicities (from solar to <1/100 solar). In the range 16.2<log N(HI)<17, there is a gap in the N(MgII) distribution corresponding to gas with ~10% solar metallicity, consistent with the gap seen in the previously identified bimodal metallicity distribution in this column density regime. Less than 3% of the absorbers in our sample show no detectable metal absorption, implying truly-pristine gas at z<1 is uncommon. We find [FeII/MgII] = -0.4+/-0.3, and since alpha-enhancement can affect this ratio, dust depletion is extremely mild.
We present methods and results from 21-cm Spectral Line Observations of Neutral Gas with the EVLA (21-SPONGE), a large survey for Galactic neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). With the upgraded capabilities
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