Nature. 2020 Oct;586(7829):369-372. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2794-7. Epub 2020 Oct 14.

H I 21-centimetre emission from an ensemble of galaxies at an average redshift of one.

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Aditya Chowdhury, Nissim Kanekar, Jayaram N Chengalur, Shiv Sethi, K S Dwarakanath

PMID: 33057221 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2794-7

Abstract

Baryonic processes in galaxy evolution include the infall of gas onto galaxies to form neutral atomic hydrogen, which is then converted to the molecular state (H

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