Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-01-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages; Latex; 2 encapsulated postscript figures. Presented at the workshop `HI in the Local Universe', Sydney, May 13-15 199
Scientific paper
Analyses of QSO absorption lines are showing that HI content has evolved over the redshift range z=5 to z= 0. The 21cm line measurements of the z=0 HI content avoid several biases inherent in the absorption line technique, such as the influence of evolving dust content in the absorbers, and will produce a reliable measure to anchor theories of galaxy evolution. Examples of important questions to be addressed by local HI surveys are: (1) is there a significant population of gas-rich galaxies or intergalactic clouds that are missing from the census of optically selected galaxies? (2) is there an adequate reservoir of neutral gas to substantially prolong star formation at its present rate? and (3) are there massive objects of such low HI column density that they can have escaped detection in the ``unbiased'' HI surveys that have been conducted so far?
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