Resolving the H I in damped Lyman α systems that power star formation.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
06 2022
Historique:
received: 18 08 2021
accepted: 04 03 2022
pubmed: 19 5 2022
medline: 7 6 2022
entrez: 18 5 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Reservoirs of dense atomic gas (primarily hydrogen) contain approximately 90 per cent of the neutral gas at a redshift of 3, and contribute to between 2 and 3 per cent of the total baryons in the Universe

Identifiants

pubmed: 35585234
doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04616-1
pii: 10.1038/s41586-022-04616-1
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

59-63

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Rongmon Bordoloi (R)

Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. rbordol@ncsu.edu.

John M O'Meara (JM)

W.M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela, HI, USA.

Keren Sharon (K)

Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Jane R Rigby (JR)

Observational Cosmology Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA.

Jeff Cooke (J)

Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO-3D), Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.

Ahmed Shaban (A)

Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.

Mateusz Matuszewski (M)

Cahill Center for Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Luca Rizzi (L)

W.M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela, HI, USA.

Greg Doppmann (G)

W.M. Keck Observatory, Kamuela, HI, USA.

D Christopher Martin (DC)

Cahill Center for Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Anna M Moore (AM)

Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Patrick Morrissey (P)

Cahill Center for Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

James D Neill (JD)

Cahill Center for Astrophysics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

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