A SINFONI Integral Field Spectroscopy Survey for Galaxy Counterparts to
  Damped Lyman-alpha Systems - VI. Metallicity and Geometry as Gas Flow Probes
  The use of background quasars provides a powerful tool to probe the cool gas
in the circum-galactic medium of foreground galaxies. Here, we present new
observations with SINFONI and X-Shooter of absorbing-galaxy candidates at
z=0.7-1. We report the detection with both instruments of the H-alpha emission
line of one sub-DLA at z_abs=0.94187 with log N(HI)=19.38^+0.10_-0.15 towards
SDSS J002133.27+004300.9. We estimate the star formation rate: SFR=3.6+/-2.2
solar masses per year in that system. A detailed kinematic study indicates a
dynamical mass M_dyn=10^9.9+/-0.4 solar masses and a halo mass
M_halo=10^11.9+/-0.5 solar masses. In addition, we report the OII detection
with X-Shooter of another DLA at z_abs=0.7402 with log N(HI)=20.4+/-0.1 toward
Q0052+0041 and an estimated SFR of 5.3+/-0.7 solar masses per year. Three other
objects are detected in the continuum with X-Shooter but the nature and
redshift of two of these objects are unconstrained due to the absence of
emission lines, while the third object might be at the redshift of the quasar.
We use the objects detected in our whole N(HI)-selected SINFONI survey to
compute the metallicity difference between the galaxy and the absorbing gas,
delta_HI(X), where a positive (negative) value indicates infall (outflow). We
compare this quantity with the quasar line of sight alignment with the galaxy's
major (minor) axis, another tracer of infall (outflow). We find that these
quantities do not correlate as expected from simple assumptions. Additional
observations are necessary to relate these two independent probes of gas flows
around galaxies.
