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We discuss physical conditions in Galactic neutral hydrogen based on deep, high velocity resolution interferometric HI 21 cm absorption spectroscopy towards 33 compact extra-galactic radio sources. The HI 21 cm optical depth spectra have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-30 Nirupam Roy , Nissim Kanekar , Jayaram N. Chengalur

The spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (H I) emission is a powerful probe of interstellar medium physics. The small-scale structure in H I channel maps is often assumed to probe the velocity field rather than real density structures.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 J. E. G. Peek , S. E. Clark

Neutral hydrogen (HI) emission closely traces the dust column density at high Galactic latitudes and is thus a powerful tool for predicting dust extinction. However, the relation between HI column density $N_{\rm HI}$ and high-latitude dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-28 Yun-Ting Cheng , Brandon S. Hensley , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Doré

We detect the neutral hydrogen (HI) radial brightness temperature profile in large-scale haloes by stacking 48,430 galaxies selected from the 2dFGRS catalogue onto a set of 21-cm intensity maps obtained with the Parkes radio telescope,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Denis Tramonte , Yin-Zhe Ma

We investigate the possible presence of neutral hydrogen (HI) in intergalactic filaments at very low redshift ($z\sim 0.08$), by stacking a set of 274,712 2dFGRS galaxy pairs over 21-cm maps obtained with dedicated observations conducted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Denis Tramonte , Yin-Zhe Ma , Yi-Chao Li , Lister Staveley-Smith

The main goal of this analysis is to present a new method to estimate the physical properties of diffuse cloud of atomic hydrogen observed at high Galactic latitude. This method, based on a comparison of the observations with fractional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes , Peter G. Martin

We have carried out a sensitive high-latitude (|b| > 15deg.) HI 21cm-line absorption survey towards 102 sources using the GMRT. With a 3-sigma detection limit in optical depth of ~0.01, this is the most sensitive HI absorption survey. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rekhesh Mohan , K. S. Dwarakanath , G. Srinivasan

Detecting neutral hydrogen structures in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during cosmic reionization via absorption (21 cm forest) against a background radiation is considered independent and complementary to the three-dimensional tomography…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-10 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

Unveiling the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $4 \leq z \leq 5$ holds the potential to reveal early onset HeII reionization or lingering thermal fluctuations from HI reionization. We set out to reconstruct the IGM gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-10 Fahad Nasir , Prakash Gaikwad , Frederick B. Davies , James S. Bolton , Ewald Puchwein , Sarah E. I. Bosman

Upcoming 21cm surveys will map the spatial distribution of cosmic neutral hydrogen (HI) over very large cosmological volumes. In order to maximize the scientific return of these surveys, accurate theoretical predictions are needed.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Digvijay Wadekar , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro , Shirley Ho , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

Unraveling the multi-phase structure of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) as traced by neutral hydrogen (HI) is essential to understanding the lifecycle of the Milky Way. However, HI phase separation is a challenging and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Minjie Lei , S. E. Clark , Rudy Morel , E. Allys , Iryna S. Butsky , Caleb Redshaw , Drummond B. Fielding

We investigate data from the Galactic Effelsberg--Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS), supplemented with data from the third release of the Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS III) observed at Parkes. We explore the all sky distribution of the local Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 P. M. W. Kalberla , J. Kerp , U. Haud , B. Winkel , N. Ben Bekhti , L. Floeer , D. Lenz

Atomic Hydrogen-21 cm transition (HI) is an excellent tracer to study and understand the properties of the atomic gas in the Galaxy. Using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), we observed 12 quasar sightlines to detect galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-19 Narendra Nath Patra , Nirupam Roy

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…

We use a large N-body simulation to examine the detectability of HI in emission at redshift z ~ 1, and the constraints imposed by current observations on the neutral hydrogen mass function of galaxies at this epoch. We consider three…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nishikanta Khandai , Shiv K. Sethi , Tiziana Di Matteo , Rupert A. C. Croft , Volker Springel , Anirban Jana , Jeffrey P. Gardner

The 21-cm brightness-temperature field of neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn is a rich source of cosmological and astrophysical information, primarily due to its significant non-Gaussian features. However, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-12 Bohdan Bidenko , Léon V. E. Koopmans , P. Daniel Meerburg

We have obtained deep HI observations in the direction of 22 continuum sources without previously detected cold neutral medium (CNM). 18 CNM clouds were detected with the typical HI column density of $3\times10^{18}$ cm$^{-2}$. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Snezana Stanimirovic , Carl Heiles , Nissim Kanekar

Context. Neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) absorption lines can be used to probe the cold neutral medium (CNM) at high Galactic latitudes. Cold HI with a significant optical depth from the GASKAP-HI survey is found to be located predominantly if…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 P. M. W. Kalberla

We explore the use of Deep Learning to infer the temperature of the intergalactic medium from the transmitted flux in the high redshift Lyman-alpha forest. We train Neural Networks on sets of simulated spectra from redshift z=2-3 outputs of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-06 Runxuan Wang , Rupert A. C. Croft , Patrick Shaw

The distribution of 21 cm emission from neutral hydrogen is a powerful cosmological and astrophysical probe, as it traces the underlying dark matter and cold gas distributions throughout cosmic times. However, the prediction of observable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-22 Satvik Mishra , Roberto Trotta , Matteo Viel