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Local HI: Constraints on the Evolution of the HI Content of the Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

F. H. Briggs
F. H. Briggs*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands; fbriggs@astro.rug.nl
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Abstract

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Analyses of QSO absorption lines show that the HI content has evolved over the redshift range z = 5 to z = 0. The 21-cm line measurements of the z = 0 HI content avoid several biases inherent in the absorption-line technique, such as the influence of evolving dust content in the absorbers, and will produce a reliable measure to anchor theories of galaxy evolution. Examples of important questions to be addressed by local HI surveys are: (1) Is there a significant population of gas-rich galaxies or intergalactic clouds that is missing from the census of optically selected galaxies? (2) Is there an adequate reservoir of neutral gas to substantially prolong star formation at its present rate? (3) Are there massive objects of such low HI column density that they can have escaped detection in the ‘unbiased’ HI surveys that have been conducted so far?

Keywords

galaxies: distances and redshiftsgalaxies: compactgalaxies: formationradio lines: galaxies
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , 1997 , pp. 31 - 36
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1997

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