Cold gas, the HI 21cm line and evolving galactic potentials
| dc.creator | Briggs, F. H. | |
| dc.date | 2000-01-05 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T01:51:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T01:51:34Z | |
| dc.description | Neutral hydrogen traces gravitational potentials. In the nearby universe, 21cm emission-line surveys show that the bulk of the HI resides in well-formed, optically-luminous galaxies. At high redshift, 21cm line absorption against background radio quasars occurs in gas-rich systems identified with the highest HI column densities -- the ``damped Lyman alpha'' quasar absorption-line systems. High spatial-resolution observations of the redshifted 21cm line absorbers measure sizes and kinematics of the neutral absorbers. | |
| dc.description | 8 pages, 2 figures. Invited review to appear in Proceedings of the XIXth Recontres de Moriond, on "Building the Galaxies: from the Primordial Universe to the Present," Editors F. Hammer, T.X. Thuan, V. Cayatte, B. Guiderdoni and J. Tran Thanh Van, Editions Frontieres | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001070 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001070 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/335 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Cold gas, the HI 21cm line and evolving galactic potentials | |
| dc.type | text |