Neutral hydrogen in cosmic voids.
Abstract
An unsuccessful search was conducted for H I clouds in two voids in the cosmic distribution of galaxies. The search employed the Green Bank 300-ft telescope, and was sensitive (at the 4sigma-level) to clouds of mass greater than about 10 to the 10th/sq h solar mass (assuming sizes less than about 100/h kpc and velocity spreads less than 100 km/s). Roughly 7 percent of the Perseus-Pisces void and 19 percent of the Hercules void were searched. It is concluded that the voids do not contain a cosmologically significant population of H I protogalaxies, and evidence consistent with the hypothesis that the voids are indeed regions of low matter density in the universe is summarized.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- October 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1086/113647
- Bibcode:
- 1984AJ.....89.1461K
- Keywords:
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- Hydrogen Clouds;
- Intergalactic Media;
- Interstellar Matter;
- Neutral Gases;
- Voids;
- Nebulae;
- Spatial Distribution;
- Universe;
- Astrophysics