HI 21-cm absorption spectroscopy provides a unique probe of the cold neutral gas in normal and active galaxies from redshift z > 6 to the present day. We describe the status of HI absorption studies, the plans for pathfinders/precursors, the expected breakthroughs that will be possible with SKA1, and some limitations set by the current design.
@article{arxiv.1501.01091,
title = {Cool Outflows and HI absorbers with SKA},
author = {Raffaella Morganti and Elaine M. Sadler and Stephen J. Curran and the SKA HI SWG Members},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01091},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
18 pages, 9 figures. To be published in: "Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array", Proceedings of Science, PoS(AASKA14) 134