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Detection of the \hi~ 21-cm power spectrum is one of the key science drivers of several ongoing and upcoming low-frequency radio interferometers. However, the major challenge in such observations come from bright foregrounds, whose accurate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-29 Madhurima Choudhury , Abhirup Datta , Suman Majumdar

The 21-cm forest, composed of spectral absorption features from high-redshift background radio sources, provides a unique probe for studying small-scale structures during the epoch of reionization. It is particularly sensitive to detecting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 Yue Shao , Tian-Yang Sun , Meng-Lin Zhao , Xin Zhang

Intervening HI 21-cm absorption systems at z > 1.0 are very rare and only 4 confirmed detections have been reported in the literature. Despite their scarcity, they provide interesting and unique insights into the physical conditions in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-29 Neeraj Gupta , R. Srianand , P. Petitjean , P. Khare , D. J. Saikia , D. G. York

The absorption features in spectra of high-redshift background radio sources, caused by hyperfine structure lines of hydrogen atoms in the intervening structures, are known collectively as the 21-cm forest. They provide a unique probe of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-21 Yue Shao , Yidong Xu , Yougang Wang , Wenxiu Yang , Ran Li , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

We report the first detections of associated H{\sc i} 21\,cm absorption in Gigahertz-peaked-spectrum (GPS) sources at high redshifts, $z > 1$, using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). Our GMRT search for associated H{\sc i} 21\,cm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-25 J. N. H. S. Aditya , Nissim Kanekar

We present recent results from our searches of 21-cm absorption using GBT, GMRT, VLBA and WSRT to trace the evolution of cold gas in galaxies. Using ~130 sight lines with 21-cm absorption measurements, we find that within the measurement…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-24 N. Gupta , R. Srianand , P. Petitjean , P. Noterdaeme , E. Momjian

Observations of the redshifted 21-cm signal (in absorption or emission) allow us to peek into the epoch of "dark ages" and the onset of reionization. These data can provide a novel way to learn about the nature of dark matter, in particular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-11 Alexey Boyarsky , Dmytro Iakubovskyi , Oleg Ruchayskiy , Anton Rudakovskyi , Wessel Valkenburg

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

We report results from a deep search for redshifted HI 21cm absorption in 55 strong MgII$\lambda$2796 absorbers (having $W (MgII) > 0.5 \AA$) at intermediate redshifts, $0.58 < z_{\rm abs} < 1.70$, with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Kanekar , J. X. Prochaska , S. L. Ellison , J. N. Chengalur

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

Machine learning (ML) methods have become popular for parameter inference in cosmology, although their reliance on specific training data can cause difficulties when applied across different data sets. By reproducing and testing networks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-23 Kimeel Sooknunan , Emma Chapman , Luke Conaboy , Daniel Mortlock , Jonathan Pritchard

The HI 21cm absorption line is masked by bright foregrounds and systematic distortions that arise due to the chromaticity of the antenna used to make the observation coupling to the spectral inhomogeneity of these foregrounds. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-12 Dominic Anstey , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley

The 21-cm signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is a powerful probe of the evolution of the Universe. However, accurate measurements of the EoR signal from radio interferometric observations are sensitive to efficient foreground…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Madhurima Choudhury , Jonathan C. Pober

We report a Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) survey for associated HI 21-cm absorption from 50 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), at $z \approx 0.04 - 3.01$, selected from the Caltech-Jodrell Bank Flat-spectrum (CJF) sample. Clean spectra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 J. N. H. S. Aditya , Nissim Kanekar

We present the results of a systematic Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) survey of 21-cm absorption in a representative and unbiased sample of 35 strong MgII systems in the redshift range: zabs~1.10-1.45, 33 of which have W_r>1 \AA.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Gupta , R. Srianand , P. Petitjean , P. Noterdaeme , D. J. Saikia

Forthcoming surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and Euclid necessitate automatic and efficient identification methods of strong lensing systems. We present a strong lensing identification approach that utilizes a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-29 Camille Avestruz , Nan Li , Hanjue Zhu , Matthew Lightman , Thomas E. Collett , Wentao Luo

The 21-cm forest signal is a promising probe of the Epoch of Reionization complementary to other 21-cm line observables and Ly$\alpha$ forest signal. Prospects of detecting it have significantly improved in the last decade thanks to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Tomáš Šoltinský , Girish Kulkarni , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , James S. Bolton

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

Laser absorption spectroscopy (LAS) is a well-established technique for non-intrusive measurement of gas species in combustion and atmospheric environments, but conventional methods struggle with multi-species mixtures under dynamic or…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-05 Mohamed Sy

We present early science results from the First Large Absorption Survey in HI (FLASH), a spectroscopically blind survey for 21-cm absorption lines in cold hydrogen HI gas at cosmological distances using the Australian Square Kilometre Array…