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Recent submillimeter and far-infrared wavelength observations of absorption in the rotational ground-state lines of various simple molecules against distant Galactic continuum sources have opened the possibility of studying the chemistry of…

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We present the largest Galactic neutral hydrogen HI absorption survey to date, utilizing the Australian SKA Pathfinder Telescope at an unprecedented spatial resolution of 30''. This survey, GASKAP-HI, unbiasedly targets 2,714 continuum…

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

Observations of radio absorption (free-free and 21 cm neutral hydrogen absorption) can provide important constraints on the interstellar medium (either ionised or neutral) surrounding AGN. This gas is relevant in the obscuration of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Raffaella Morganti

Strong constraints on possible variations in fundamental constants can be derived from HI 21-cm and molecular rotational absorption lines observed towards quasars. With the aim of forming a statistical sample of constraints we have begun a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. J. Curran , J. K. Webb , M. T. Murphy , Y. M. Pihlström

The Lockman Hole is well known as the region with the lowest neutral atomic hydrogen colum density on the entire sky. We present an analysis of the soft X-ray background radiation towards the Lockman Hole using ROSAT all-sky survey data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Kappes , Juergen Kerp , Philipp Richter

We report conclusive verification of the detection of associated HI 21 cm absorption in the early-type host galaxy of the compact radio source PMNJ2054-4242. We estimate an effective spectral line velocity width of 418 +/- 20 km s^{-1} and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. R. Allison , S. J. Curran , E. M. Sadler , S. N. Reeves

The scattering trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) can be measured to smaller sizes than any other distant small-body population. We use the largest sample yet obtained, 68 discoveries, primarily by the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (OSSOS),…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 S. M. Lawler , C. Shankman , JJ. Kavelaars , M. Alexandersen , M. T. Bannister , Y. -T. Chen , B. Gladman , W. C. Fraser , S. Gwyn , N. Kaib , J. -M. Petit , K. Volk

Neutral hydrogen (HI) emission exhibits complex morphology that encodes rich information about the physics of the interstellar medium (ISM). We apply the scattering transform (ST) to characterize HI emission structure via a set of compact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Minjie Lei , S. E. Clark

We study the internal structure of the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM), using 29 spectra of 13 gravitationally lensed quasars with image separation angles of a few arcseconds, which correspond to 100 pc to 10 kpc in physical distances. After…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Suzuka Koyamada , Toru Misawa , Naohisa Inada , Masamune Oguri , Nobunari Kashikawa , Katsuya Okoshi

We present Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and Very Large Array observations of HI 21-cm absorption in ten z<=0.2 galaxy mergers that host strong radio sources. Seven of these mergers show strong absorption [with N(HI) ~10^{21-22} cm^{-2},…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Rajeshwari Dutta , Raghunathan Srianand , Neeraj Gupta

As a major interstellar medium, the atomic neutral hydrogen (HI) plays an important role in the galaxy evolution. It provides the ingredient for star formation, and sensitively traces the internal processes and external perturbations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-11 Jing Wang , Xuchen Lin

We use the millennium Arecibo 21 cm absorption-line survey measurements to examine the issue of the non-thermal contribution to the observed Galactic HI line widths. If we assume a simple, constant pressure model for the HI in the Galaxy,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-04 Nirupam Roy , Leshma Peedikakkandy , Jayaram N. Chengalur

Interstellar turbulence shapes the HI distribution in the Milky Way (MW). How this affects large-scale statistical properties of HI column density across the MW remains largely unconstrained. We use approx 13,000 square-degree GALFA-HI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-24 Amit K. Mittal , Brian L Babler , Snezana Stanimirovic , Nickolas Pingel

We analyze high-resolution UV spectra of the Mg II h and k lines for 18 members of the Hyades Cluster to study inhomogeneity along these proximate lines of sight. The observations were taken by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Seth Redfield , Jeffrey L. Linsky

We have observed the supernova remnant (SNR) G290.1-0.8 in the 21-cm HI line and the 20-cm radio continuum using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA). The HI data were combined with data from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Estela M. Reynoso , Simon Johnston , Anne J. Green , Baerbel S. Koribalski

Resolving the phase structure of neutral hydrogen (HI) is crucial for understanding the life cycle of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, accurate measurements of HI temperature and density are limited by the availability of background…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Claire E. Murray , J. E. G. Peek , Chang-Goo Kim

The neutral hydrogen (Hi) 21-cm line serves as a powerful tracer of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM). Thermal stability analysis suggests that the neutral ISM is bistable in nature, consisting of the cold neutral medium (CNM) embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Atanu Koley

The observed high covering fractions of neutral hydrogen (HI) with column densities above $\sim 10^{17} \rm{cm}^{-2}$ around Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBGs) and bright quasars at redshifts z ~ 2-3 has been identified as a challenge for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-25 Alireza Rahmati , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain , Michelle Furlong , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns