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We use state-of-the-art cosmological zoom simulations to explore the distribution of neutral gas in and around galaxies that gives rise to high column density \ion{H}{i} \mbox{Ly-$\alpha$} absorption (formally, sub-DLAs and DLAs) in the…

Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) seen in the spectra of high-z QSOs allow us to probe the physical conditions in protogalaxies. Our understanding of physical conditions in DLAs at high-z is primarily based on the absorption lines of H_2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-19 N. Gupta , R. Srianand , P. Petitjean , P. Noterdaeme , D. J. Saikia

We investigate the properties of Damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) using high-resolution and large box-size cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of a LambdaCDM model. The numerical code used is a modification of GADGET-2 with a self…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Edoardo Tescari , Matteo Viel , Luca Tornatore , Stefano Borgani

We present 4 new measurements of nitrogen abundances and one upper limit in damped Lyman alpha absorbers (DLAs) obtained by means of high resolution (FWHM \~ 7 km/s) UVES/VLT spectra. In addition to these measurements we have compiled data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 M. Centurion , P. Molaro , G. Vladilo , C. Peroux , S. A. Levshakov , V. D'Odorico

Neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) constitutes a key phase of the cosmic baryon cycle, bridging the ionised circumgalactic medium and the star-forming molecular gas. Yet, nearly 75 years after its discovery, direct views of HI through its 21cm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Graham Lawrie , Roger Deane , Tariq Blecher , Danail Obreschkow , Ian Heywood , Shilpa Ranchod

We present the results of three separate searches for HI 21-cm absorption in a total of twelve damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems (DLAs) and sub-DLAs over the redshift range z = 0.86-3.37. We find no absorption in the five systems for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. J. Curran , P. Tzanavaris , J. K. Darling , M. T. Whiting , J. K. Webb C. Bignell , R. Athreya , M. T. Murphy

We use spectral stacking to measure the contribution of galaxies of different masses and in different hierarchies to the cosmic atomic hydrogen (HI) mass density in the local Universe. Our sample includes 1793 galaxies at $z < 0.11$…

We present the results of a pilot survey for neutral hydrogen (HI) 21 cm absorption in the Arecibo Legacy Fast Arecibo L-Band Feed Array (ALFALFA) Survey. This project is a wide-area "blind" search for HI absorption in the local universe,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Jeremy Darling , Erin P. Macdonald , Martha P. Haynes , Riccardo Giovanelli

Upcoming 21 cm intensity mapping experiments like the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) hold significant potential to constrain the properties of dark matter. In this work, we model neutral hydrogen (HI) distributions using high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-02 Tibor Dome , Rumail Azhar , Anastasia Fialkov

The cross-section of sky occupied by a particular neutral hydrogen column density provides insight into the nature of Lyman-alpha absorption systems. We have measured this column density distribution at z=0 using 21-cm HI emission from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emma Ryan-Weber , Rachel Webster , Lister Staveley-Smith

We examine the global HI properties of galaxies in quarter-billion particle cosmological simulations using Gadget-2, focusing on how galactic outflows impact HI content. We consider four outflow models, including a new one (ezw) motivated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Romeel Davé , Neal Katz , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

The standard $\rm \Lambda$CDM cosmological model predicts that a large amount of diffuse neutral hydrogen distributes in cosmic filaments, which could be mapped through Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission observations. We use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-29 Yizhou Liu , Liang Gao , Shihong Liao , Kai Zhu

We report results from a programme aimed at investigating the temperature of neutral gas in high-redshift damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs). This involved (1) HI 21cm absorption studies of a large DLA sample, (2) VLBI studies to…

In this paper we investigate the possible reasons why HI 21-cm absorption in damped Lyman-alpha systems (DLAs) has only been detected at low redshift... We suggest that the lack of 21-cm absorption detections at high redshift arises from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. J. Curran , J. K. Webb

Damped Ly\alpha\ systems (DLAs) observed in the quasar spectra are characterized by a high neutral hydrogen column density $N_{HI}>2\times 10^{20}{\rm\ cm^{-2}}$. The absorption wing profiles are often fitted using the Voigt function due to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Hee-Won Lee

We present deep GMRT 21cm absorption spectra of 10 damped Lyman-$\alpha$ systems (DLAs), of which 8 are at redshifts $z \ga 1.3$. HI absorption was detected in only one DLA, the $z = 0.5318$ absorber toward PKS 1629+12, which has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nissim Kanekar , Jayaram N Chengalur

We present the results of a search for cold gas at high redshift along QSO lines-of-sight carried out without any a priori assumption on the neutral atomic-hydrogen (HI) content of the absorbers. To do this, we systematically looked for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-22 C. Ledoux , P. Noterdaeme , P. Petitjean , R. Srianand

We present spatial correlations of galaxies and IGM HI in the COSMOS/UltraVISTA 1.62 deg$^2$ field. Our data consist of 13,415 photo-$z$ galaxies at $z\sim2-3$ with $K_s<23.4$ and the Ly$\alpha$ forest absorptions in the background quasar…

The spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the Universe contains a wealth of cosmological information. The 21 cm emission line can be used to map the HI up to very high redshift and therefore reveal us something about the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Emanuele Castorina , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

We investigate the signatures left by massive neutrinos on the spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the post-reionization era by running hydrodynamic simulations that include massive neutrinos as additional collisionless…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Philip Bull , Matteo Viel