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1 NEUTRAL HYDROGEN Frank Briggs RSAA and ATNF z = 8 z = 0

2 damped Lyman-  abs-lines 21cm Line Studies (HIPASS)

3 Quasar Absorption lines Lyman  forest DLA Metal lines Wavelength (Angstroms) N >2x10 cm -2 20 HI

4 Quasar SiII CII SiII FeII AlII OI/SiII SiIV CIV HI D.L.A. (all DLAs have metal lines)

5 …bathe HI cloud in photoionizing radiation… Photons  E > 13.6 eV

6 …bathe HI cloud in photoionizing radiation… ?? minimum thickness of skin before becomes self-shielding ??

7 …bathe HI cloud in photoionizing radiation… optical depth  > 1 for  E ~ 13.6 eV photons N >3x10 cm -2 17 HI note:  < 1 … transparent… hard to heat!

8 Energy Levels in Hydrogen E = 0 Ground State Energy Optically thick at the Lyman limitOptically thick in the Lyman continuum Photons  E > 13.6 eV are absorbed transitions from ground state are absorbed

9 Energy Levels in Hydrogen E = 0 Ground State Energy Optically thick in the Lyman continuum BUT HI layer is transparent to all other wavelengths shorter than the Lyman limit

10 E = 0 Ground State Energy H He C N O Na Mg Al Si Ca Ti Cr Mn Fe Zn Ionization by ambient starlight with > 912 Angstrom

11 Quasar Absorption lines Lyman  forest DLA Metal lines Wavelength (Angstroms)

12 Quasar Absorption lines Lyman  forest DLA Metal lines LL

13 Quasar Absorption lines  thoroughly developed statistics !!! for Lyman  and metal lines… (whatever is common… is most likely to intervene by chance) (ordinary Galaxies

14 C IV M gII / Lyman limit (CII, FeII, SiII, …) Relative interception cross sections … Z=3 Ly break galaxyDLA

15 12 14 18 20 22 HI Column density distribution function Petijean etal 1993 Log f (N HI ) -10 -15 -20 Log N HI Number of interceptions in range: N to N+dN f (N) dN per unit z N HI = N H (n HI / n H ) Ionization fraction ~10 -3 ? Ly  forest IGM DLA C IV  LL > 1

16 M ~ N f (N)dN HI f (N)dN ~ N dN /unit Z -3/2 12 14 18 20 22 HI Column density distribution function Petijean etal 1993 Log f (N HI ) -10 -15 -20 Log N HI DLA M / Log Interv ~ N f (N) HI 2 ~ N~ N +1/2

17 C IV M gII / Lyman limit (CII, FeII, SiII, …) Relative interception cross sections … What are these things??? Z=3 Ly break galaxyDLA (tough to image)pin

18 nearby Neutral gas disks analogs to high Z DLAs ??? Optical + Radio

19 Extended, low-column density gas = analog of LymanLimit/MgII CIV is the lower density material ??

20 Square Kilometre Array

21 ARRAY Simple antenna “elements” “Station” “Array”

22 D Sensivity depends on collecting area Angular resolution ~ /D

23 D Sensivity depends on collecting area Angular resolution ~ /D

24 VLA ALMA ESO VLTI

25 6 th ATNF Synthesis Imaging Workshop “Synthesis Imaging from Centimetre to Millimetre Wavelengths” 12-16 May 2003 at Narrabri NSW www.atnf.csiro.au/synthesis

26 ARRAY Simple antenna “elements” “Station” “Array”

27 SKA Design “Magic Carpet”

28 Eggs on Legs

29 3C196- G1 z = 0.437 HST image (Ridgway & Stockton) 3” Cohen et al

30 Double Lobed Radio Source Radio spectrum at 988 MHz Westerbork (Briggs, deBruyn, Vermeulen) 300 km/s

31 source centroid as fnct of Frequency map emission ? SKA map absorption ?

32 new GMRT Kanekar & Chengalur 988 MHz

33 high redshift radio galaxies TNR J2254+1857 TNR J1402-1510

34 Radio galaxy spectra No UV continuum No DLA absorption lines

35 Molonglo Telescope: SKAMP III frequency coverage sensitivity RFI rejection VLBI to resolve source

36 CosmicEvolutionIndicators Redshift 0 1 2 3 4 5 co-moving number density of bright Quasars Cosmic Star Formation Rate history: the Madau Plot 0 1 2 3 4 5 extent of metal-rich gaseous halos cosmic density  g of Neutral Gas 0 1 2 3 4 5

37 Violent accretion accretion Passive relaxation relaxation CosmicEvolutionIndicators Redshift 1420 500 250 MHz frequency

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41 Cut off from view of optical wavelengths !!! n HI n HI +n HII  10 -3 If neutral fraction >

42 Gnedin’s simulation of Reionization: log(Neutral fraction) log(density) log T log(mean intensity of ionizing flux) http://casa.colorado.edu/~gnedin/GALLERY/

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44 .…. ionized…… re-re-ionized re-ionized

45 MAP

46 Z = 17  ??? Rules out WDM MAP Result

47 70 MHz ………………..180 MHz

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49 Global Signal… 20 mK

50 “The Z=20 Expt” JR, FB, et al

51 Passband filters (from load scan) and RFI (from sky scan)

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53 10 arcmin LOFAR and SKA … Quasar distributed star formation

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57 SUMMARY: still plenty to do !

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