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We have studied the small scale distribution of atomic hydrogen (HI) using 21-cm absorption spectra against multiple-component background radio continuum sources from the 21-SPONGE survey and the Millennium Arecibo Absorption Line Survey.…

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Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Anthony H. Minter , Dana S. Balser , Jeyhan Karltaltepe

We present methods and results from "21-cm Spectral Line Observations of Neutral Gas with the EVLA" (21-SPONGE), a large survey for Galactic neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). With the upgraded…

We report that the neutral hydrogen (HI) mass density of the Universe ($\rho_{HI}$) increases with cosmic time since $z \sim 5$, peaks at $z \sim 3$, and then decreases toward $z \sim 0$. This is the first result of Qz5, our spectroscopic…

We report the GMRT detection of HI 21cm absorption from the $z \sim 3.39$ damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorber (DLA) towards PKS 0201+113, the highest redshift at which 21cm absorption has been detected in a DLA. The absorption is spread over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Kanekar , J. N. Chengalur , W. M. Lane

We present results of a blind survey of Lyman limit systems (LLSs) detected in absorption against 105 quasars at z~3 using the blue sensitive MagE spectrograph at the Magellan Clay telescope. By searching for Lyman limit absorption in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michele Fumagalli , John M. O'Meara , J. Xavier Prochaska , Gabor Worseck

We present global VLBI observations of the 21-cm transition of atomic hydrogen seen in absorption against the radio source J0855+5751. The foreground absorber (SDSS~J085519.05+575140.7) is a dwarf galaxy at $z$ = 0.026. As the background…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 A. D. Biggs , M. A. Zwaan , E. Hatziminaoglou , C. Péroux , J. Liske

Aims. We have searched for temporal variations of narrow absorption lines in high resolution quasar spectra. A sample of 5 distant sources have been assembled, for which 2 spectra - VLT/UVES or Keck/HIRES - taken several years apart are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 P. Boissé , J. Bergeron , J. X. Prochaska , C. Péroux , D. G. York

We present a joint analysis of HI absorption Zeeman measurements and the morphology of filamentary HI emission to investigate the three-dimensional structure of the magnetic field in the diffuse neutral interstellar medium (ISM). Our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Marta Nowotka , Susan E. Clark , Blakesley Burkhart , Laura Fissel , Tao-Chung Ching , Timothy Robishaw , Carl Heiles

We describe an ultraviolet spectroscopic survey of interstellar high-velocity cloud (HVC) absorption in the strong 1206.500 Angstrom line of Si III using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope. Because…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Joseph A. Collins , Michael Shull , Mark L. Giroux

We present results of a blind search for Galactic HI 21-cm absorption lines toward 19130 radio sources, using 390 pointings of MALS, each pointing centered on a source brighter than 200 mJy. We detected 3640 HI absorption features. This…

Dark gas in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to not be detectable either in CO or Hi radio emission, but it is detected by other means including gamma-rays, dust emission and extinction traced outside the Galactic plane at |b|>5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Fukui , K. Torii , T. Onishi , H. Yamamoto , R. Okamoto , T. Hayakawa , K. Tachihara , H. Sano

Obtaining a complete census of gas in the local interstellar medium (<100 pc) is challenging given the limited available tracers of the warm, partially-ionized medium. Medium-to-high resolution UV absorption spectroscopy toward individual…

We report results from a study of the HI content and stellar properties of nearby galaxies detected by the Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA blind 21-cm line survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in two declination strips covering a total area of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. C. Toribio , J. M. Solanes , R. Giovanelli , M. P. Haynes , K. L. Masters

We report the discovery of a further line of sight allowing detection of HeII Ly alpha absorption by the intergalactic medium. A HST/STIS survey of 32 bright z ~ 3 quasars selected from the Hamburg Quasar Surveys yielded one detection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Reimers , C. Fechner , H. -J. Hagen , P. Jakobsen , D. Tytler , D. Kirkman

We present a 21cm line HI self-absorption (HISA) survey of cold atomic gas within Galactic longitudes 75 to 146 degrees and latitudes -3 to +5 degrees. We identify HISA as spatially and spectrally confined dark HI features and extract it…

We investigate the diversity in the sizes and average surface densities of the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas discs in ~280 nearby galaxies detected by the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Blind Survey (WALLABY). We combine the…

Detecting HI using redshifted Ly-alpha absorption lines is 1e6 times more sensitive than using the 21cm emission line. We review recent discoveries of HI Ly-alpha absorbers made with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) which have allowed us a…

We measure the dark matter halo masses of z~2.36 UV color-selected star-forming galaxies by matching the observed median HI Ly{\alpha} absorption around them, as observed in the spectra of background QSOs, to the absorption around haloes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Olivera Rakic , Joop Schaye , Charles C. Steidel , Craig Booth , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Gwen C. Rudie

Over the course of its motion through the Galaxy, our solar system has encountered many interstellar environments of varying characteristics. Interstellar medium (ISM) density variations spanning seven orders of magnitude are commonly seen…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Katherine Wyman , Seth Redfield