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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 Galaxies-Intergalactic Medium Interaction Calculation (GIMIC) cosmological hydrodynamic simulation at z=0 to study the distribution and environmental dependence of neutral hydrogen (HI) gas in the outskirts of simulated galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. Cunnama , S. Andrianomena , C. M. Cress , A. Faltenbacher , B. K. Gibson , T. Theuns

We develop a machine learning-based framework to predict the HI content of galaxies using more straightforwardly observable quantities such as optical photometry and environmental parameters. We train the algorithm on z=0-2 outputs from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Mika Rafieferantsoa , Sambatra Andrianomena , Romeel Davé

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

Simulations predict that circumgalactic hydrogen gas surrounding massive ($M_{\rm{halo}}^{z=1}=10^{12}-10^{13}\ M_{\odot}$) galaxies at $z\sim4$ may be predominantly neutral, and could produce damped Ly$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 Alon Gurman , Amiel Sternberg , Shmuel Bialy , Rachel K. Cochrane , Jonathan Stern

After reionization, neutral hydrogen (HI) traces the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe, enabling HI intensity mapping (IM) to capture the LSS in 3D and constrain key cosmological parameters. We present a new framework utilizing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-10 Eishica Chand , Arka Banerjee , Simon Foreman , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

The low column density gas at the outskirts of galaxies as traced by the 21 cm hydrogen line emission (HI) represents the interface between galaxies and the intergalactic medium, i.e., where galaxies are believed to get their supply of gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Roger Ianjamasimanana , Fabian Walter , W. J. G. de Blok , George H. Heald , Elias Brinks

The hyperfine structure absorption lines of neutral hydrogen in spectra of high-redshift radio sources, known collectively as the 21-cm forest, have been demonstrated as a sensitive probe to the small-scale structures governed by the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Tian-Yang Sun , Yue Shao , Yichao Li , Yidong Xu , He Wang , Xin Zhang

Hydrogen column densities inferred from X-ray absorption are typically 5 - 30 times larger than the neutral atomic hydrogen column densities derived from 21cm HI absorption toward radio-loud active galactic nuclei. Some part of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Harvey Liszt

H$_{\rm I}$ 21-cm and $^{12}$CO 2.6-mm line emissions respectively trace the atomic and molecular gas phases, but they miss most of the opaque H$_{\rm I}$ and diffuse H$_2$ present in the Dark Neutral Medium (DNM) at the transition between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Q. Remy , I. A. Grenier , D. J. Marshall , J. M. Casandjian

In the Halo21 absorption modeling challenge we generated synthetic absorption spectra of the circumgalactic medium (CGM), and attempted to estimate the metallicity, temperature, and density (Z, T, and nH) of the underlying gas using…

We assess the impact of Galactic synchrotron foreground removal on the observation of high-redshift quasar HII regions in redshifted 21-cm emission. We consider the case where a quasar is observed in an intergalactic medium (IGM) whose…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-24 Paul. M. Geil , Stuart Wyithe , Nada Petrovic , Peng Oh

Extracting the multiphase structure of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) is key to understand the star formation in galaxies. The radiative condensation of the diffuse warm neutral medium producing a thermally unstable lukewarm medium…

The Planck survey has quantified polarized Galactic foregrounds and established that they are a main limiting factor in the quest for the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode signal induced by primordial gravitational waves during…

Galactic HI (neutral hydrogen) shells are central to our understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM), which plays a key role in the development and evolution of galaxies, including our own. Several models involving supernovae and stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-30 Shauna M. Sallmen , Eric J. Korpela , Brooke Bellehumeur , Elizabeth M. Tennyson , Kurt Grunwald , Cheuk Man Lo

Identifying neutral hydrogen (\hi) galaxies from observational data is a significant challenge in \hi\ galaxy surveys. With the advancement of observational technology, especially with the advent of large-scale telescope projects such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zihao Song , Huaxi Chen , Donghui Quan , Di Li , Yinghui Zheng , Shulei Ni , Yunchuan Chen , Yun Zheng

The redshifted 1420 MHz emission from the HI in unresolved damped Lyman-\alpha clouds at high z will appear as a background radiation in low frequency radio observations. This holds the possibility of a new tool for studying the universe at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Somnath Bharadwaj , Biman B. Nath , Shiv K. Sethi

We study the faint end of the HI mass function (HIMF) in order to test the predictions of the CDM theory on the number density of objects with small (dark) masses. The neutral hydrogen is much better tracer of the underlying mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Kovac , T. A. Oosterloo , J. M. van der Hulst

We report the discovery of a threshold in the HI column density of Galactic gas clouds below which the formation of the cold phase of HI is inhibited. This threshold is at $N_{HI} = 2 \times 10^{20}$ per cm$^{2}$; sightlines with lower HI…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-20 Nissim Kanekar , Robert Braun , Nirupam Roy

An accurate estimate of the interstellar gas density distribution is crucial to understanding the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). To comprehend the ISM and CRs in a local environment, a study of the diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 T. Mizuno , S. Abdollahi , Y. Fukui , K. Hayashi , T. Koyama , A. Okumura , H. Tajima , H. Yamamoto