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Using Gravitational Lenses to Probe HI at High z

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

T.D. Saini
Affiliation:
I.U.C.A.A., Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India
S.K. Sethi
Affiliation:
Mehta Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211019, India
S. Bharadwaj
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Center for Theoretical Studies, I.I.T. Kharagpur, 721302, India

Abstract

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We investigate the possibility of detecting damped Lyman-α systems at high redshifts using GMRT if these clouds are magnified by intervening cluster lenses. We show that if the HI mass of the damped clouds ≥ 2 × 1010 M then they can be detected with a probability ≥ 0.2 using GMRT.

Type
Part 2: Extra Galactic Neutral Hydrogen and Cosmology
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

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