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Selection Effects at 21cm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

F.H. Briggs*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands

Abstract

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Surveys in the 21cm line of neutral hydrogen are testing the completeness of the catalogs of nearby galaxies. The remarkable observational fact is that the potential wells that confine gas to sufficient density that it can remain neutral in the face of ionizing radiation also provide sites for star formation, so that there are no known cases of neutral intergalactic clouds without associated star light.

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Observational selection effects
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