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From the first published z > 3 survey of 21-cm absorption within the hosts of radio galaxies and quasars, we found an apparent dearth of cool neutral gas at high redshift. From a detailed analysis of the photometry, each object is found to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. J. Curran , M. T. Whiting

We report results from a deep search for redshifted HI 21cm absorption in 55 strong MgII$\lambda$2796 absorbers (having $W (MgII) > 0.5 \AA$) at intermediate redshifts, $0.58 < z_{\rm abs} < 1.70$, with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Kanekar , J. X. Prochaska , S. L. Ellison , J. N. Chengalur

We detect the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen in absorption at a redshift of 0.673 towards the 1 Jy radio source 1504+377. The 1504+377 radio source is located toward the center of what appears to be an inclined disk galaxy at z = 0.674. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 C. L. Carilli , Karl M. Menten , Mark J. Reid , M. P. Rupen

We have used the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope to detect HI 21cm absorption at $z \sim 0.7645$ in the gravitational lens system towards PMN J0134-0931. The 21cm profile has two broad components, with peak optical depths of $0.047 \pm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Kanekar , F. H. Briggs

Neutral atomic hydrogen and molecular gas in the host galaxies of radio active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be traced using H I 21-cm and OH-1667 MHz absorption lines to understand the fueling and feedback processes. We present the results of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-01 Yogesh Chandola , D. J. Saikia , Yin-Zhe Ma , Zheng Zheng , Chao-Wei Tsai , Di Li , Denis Tramonte , Hengxing Pan

The EDGES collaboration has reported the detection of a global 21-cm signal with a plateau centered at 76 MHz (i.e., redshift 17.2), with an amplitude of 500^(+200)_(-500) mK. This anomalous measurement does not comport with standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-22 Fulvio Melia

A late end to reionisation at redshift $z\simeq 5.3$ is consistent with observed spatial variations in the Ly$\alpha$ forest transmission and the deficit of Ly$\alpha$ emitting galaxies around extended Ly$\alpha$ absorption troughs at…

Intervening HI 21-cm absorption systems at z > 1.0 are very rare and only 4 confirmed detections have been reported in the literature. Despite their scarcity, they provide interesting and unique insights into the physical conditions in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Neeraj Gupta , R. Srianand , P. Petitjean , P. Khare , D. J. Saikia , D. G. York

We report a uGMRT detection of HI 21-cm absorption associated with the radio source 8C 0604+728, at $z = 3.52965$. The source is at the highest redshift at which associated HI 21-cm absorption has been discovered to date, surpassing earlier…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-20 J. N. H. S. Aditya , Regina Jorgenson , Vishal Joshi , Veeresh Singh , Tao An , Yogesh Chandola

We have searched for redshifted absorption in the 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen toward `red quasars', which are extragalactic radio sources with a steep spectral drop between optical and infrared wavelengths. The success rate for detecting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Carilli , Karl M. Menten , C. P. Moore

A soft ultraviolet radiation field, 10.2 eV < E <13.6 eV, that permeates neutral intergalactic gas during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) excites the 2p (directly) and 2s (indirectly) states of atomic hydrogen. Because the 2s state is…

We consider the possibility of the detection of $^3$HeII hyperfine line (rest frequency, $8.67 \, \rm GHz$) emission from ionized zones around accreting black holes (BHs) formed at high redshifts, $z=15\hbox{--}30$. We show that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Evgenii O. Vasiliev , Shiv K. Sethi , Yuri A. Shchekinov

We present the results of a large search for intrinsic HI 21 cm and OH 18 cm absorption in 145 compact radio sources in the redshift range 0.02< z <3.8 with the Green Bank Telescope. We re-detect HI 21 cm absorption toward six known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-27 Kathryn Grasha , Jeremy Darling , Alberto Bolatto , Adam K. Leroy , John T. Stocke

We show the combined spectral analysis of \emph{Chandra} high energy transmission grating (HETG) and \emph{XMM-Newton} reflection grating spectrometer (RGS) observations of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 111. The source is known to show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 F. Tombesi , C. S. Reynolds , R. F. Mushotzky , E. Behar

We present the results from our search for HI 21-cm absorption in a sample of 16 strong FeII systems ($W_{\rm r}$(MgII $\lambda2796$) $\ge1.0$ \AA\ and $W_{\rm r}$(FeII $\lambda2600$) or $W_{\rm FeII}$ $\ge1$ \AA) at $0.5<z<1.5$ using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 R. Dutta , R. Srianand , N. Gupta , R. Joshi , P. Petitjean , P. Noterdaeme , J. Ge , J. -K. Krogager

We use high quality echelle spectra of 24 QSOs to provide a calibrated measurement of the total amount of Lyman-alpha forest absorption (DA) over the redshift range 2.2 < z < 3.2. Our measurement of DA excludes absorption from metal lines…

The ionization rate of interstellar material by cosmic rays has been a major source of controversy, with different estimates varying by three orders of magnitude. Observational constraints of this rate have all depended on analyzing the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nick Indriolo , L. M. Hobbs , K. H. Hinkle , Benjamin J. McCall

The paper analyzes the absorption line profile at 21 cm for the hydrogen atom in the interstellar medium. The hydrogen atom is treated as a three-level system illuminated by a powerful light source at neighboring resonances corresponding to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 D. Solovyev

We report radio recombination line (RRL) and continuum observations of a sample of 106 Galactic HII regions made with the NRAO 140 Foot radio telescope in Green Bank, WV. We believe this to be the most sensitive RRL survey ever made for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cintia Quireza , Robert T. Rood , Dana S. Balser , T. M. Bania