**title** Asp Conference Series, Vol. **volume**, **publication Year** **editors** the Contribution of Hi-rich Galaxies to the Damped Absorber Population at Z = 0
**title** Asp Conference Series, Vol. **volume**, **publication Year** **editors** the Contribution of Hi-rich Galaxies to the Damped Absorber Population at Z = 0
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2001
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S. Schneider
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J. Rosenberg;S. Schneider
We present a study of HI-rich galaxies in the local universe selected from blind emission-line surveys. These galaxies represent the emission-line counterparts of local damped Lyman-α systems. We find that the HI cross-section of galaxies is drawn from a large range of galaxy masses below M HI * , 66% of the area comes from galaxies in the range 8.5 < Log M HI * < 9.7. Both because of the low mass galaxy contribution, and because of the range of galaxy types and luminosities at any given HI mass, the galaxies contributing to the HI cross-section are not exclusively L * spirals, as is often expected. The optical and near infrared counterparts of these galaxies cover a range of types (from spirals to irregulars), luminosities (from L * to <0.01 L *), and surface brightnesses. The range of optical and near infrared properties as well as the kinematics for this population are consistent with the properties for the low-z damped Ly-α absorbers. We also show that the number of HI-rich galaxies in the local universe does not preclude evolution of the low-z damped absorber population, but it is consistent with no evolution.