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The interplay between atomic gas, the star-formation history of a galaxy and its environment are intrinsically linked, and we need to decouple these dependencies to understand their role in galaxy formation and evolution. In this paper, we…

While massive quiescent galaxies are known to be poor in atomic hydrogen (HI), their true HI content remains poorly constrained due to the limited sensitivity and morphological biases of existing surveys. We present deep HI observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-20 Xiao Li , Cheng Li , Cheng Cheng , Houjun Mo , Jing Wang , Amélie Saintonge

High resolution, multi-wavelength maps of a sizeable set of nearby galaxies have made it possible to study how the surface densities of HI, H2 and star formation rate (Sigma_HI, Sigma_H2, Sigma_SFR) relate on scales of a few hundred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Bigiel , A. Leroy , F. Walter

We revisit the HI size-mass (D$_{\rm HI}$-M$_{\rm HI}$) relation of galaxies with a sample of more than 500 nearby galaxies covering over five orders of magnitude in HI mass and more than ten $B$-band magnitudes. The relation is remarkably…

Due to the fact that HI mass measurements are not available for large galaxy samples at high redshifts, we apply a photometric estimator of the HI-to-stellar mass ratio (M_HI/M_*) calibrated using a local Universe sample of galaxies to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Wei Zhang , Guinevere Kauffmann , Jing Wang , Yanmei Chen , Jian Fu , Hong Wu

We present a study of the dust, stars and atomic gas (HI) in an HI-selected sample of local galaxies (z<0.035) in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS) fields. This HI-selected sample reveals a population of very…

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 study the dependence of galaxy clustering on atomic gas mass using a sample of $\sim$16,000 galaxies with redshift in the range of $0.0025<z<0.05$ and HI mass of $M_{\rm HI}>10^8M_{\odot}$, drawn from the 70% complete sample of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Hong Guo , Cheng Li , Zheng Zheng , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Ying Zu , S. H. Lim , Haojie Xu

We use the first systematic data sets of CO molecular line emission in z~1-3 normal star forming galaxies for a comparison of the dependence of galaxy-averaged star formation rates on molecular gas masses at low and high redshifts, and in…

We analytically derive the observed size-mass relation of galaxies' atomic hydrogen (HI), including limits on its scatter, based on simple assumptions about the structure of HI discs. We trial three generic profiles for HI surface density…

The first galaxies in the Universe are the building blocks of all observed galaxies. We present scaling relations for galaxies forming at redshifts $z \ge 15$ when reionization is just beginning. We utilize the ``Rarepeak' cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Pengfei Chen , John H. Wise , Michael L. Norman , Hao Xu , Brian W. O'Shea

The neutral hydrogen (HI) content of dark matter haloes forms an intermediate state in the baryon cycle that connects the hot shock-heated gas and cold star-forming gas in haloes. Measurement of the relationship between HI mass and halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 Hamsa Padmanabhan , Girish Kulkarni

In this paper, we stack neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) spectra for 9,720 star forming galaxies along the mass-metallicity relation. The sample is selected according to stellar mass (10$^9 \leq$ M$_{\star}$/M$_{\odot}\leq$10$^{11}$) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Toby Brown , Luca Cortese , Barbara Catinella , Virginia Kilborn

The baryonic processes in galaxy evolution include gas infall onto galaxies to form neutral atomic hydrogen (HI), the conversion of HI to the molecular state (H$_2$), and, finally, the conversion of H$_2$ to stars. Understanding galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-05 Aditya Chowdhury , Nissim Kanekar , Jayaram Chengalur , Shiv Sethi , K. S. Dwarakanath

In order to understand galaxy growth evolution, it is critical to constrain the evolution of its building block: gas. Mostly comprised by Hydrogen in its neutral (HI) and molecular (H2) phases, the latter is the one mostly directly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-12 Hugo Messias , Andrea Guerrero , Neil Nagar , Jack Regueiro , Violette Impellizzeri , Gustavo Orellana , Miguel Vioque

Atomic hydrogen (HI) serves a crucial role in connecting galactic-scale properties such as star formation with the large-scale structure of the Universe. While recent numerical simulations have successfully matched the observed covering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-16 Lucas Tortora , Robert Feldmann , Mauro Bernardini , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère

We present a semi-empirical model to infer the atomic and molecular hydrogen content of galaxies as a function of halo mass and time. Our model combines the SFR-halo mass-redshift relation (constrained by galaxy abundances) with inverted…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 G. Popping , P. S. Behroozi , M. S. Peeples

We use a pressure-based model for splitting cold hydrogen into its atomic (HI) and molecular (H2)components to tackle the co-evolution of HI, H2, and star formation rates (SFR) in ~3e7 simulated galaxies in the Millennium simulation. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-17 D. Obreschkow , S. Rawlings

The HI gas content is a key ingredient in galaxy evolution, the study of which has been limited to moderate cosmological distances for individual galaxies due to the weakness of the hyperfine HI 21-cm transition. Here we present a new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Kasper E. Heintz , Darach Watson , Pascal Oesch , Desika Narayanan , Suzanne C. Madden

The formation and evolution of galaxies with low neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) masses, M$_{\rm HI}$$<$10$^{8}h^{-2}$M$_{\odot}$, are affected by host dark matter halo mass and photoionisation feedback from the UV background after the end of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Han-Seek Kim , J. Stuart B. Wyithe , C. M. Baugh , C. d. P. Lagos , C. Power , Jaehong Park