ﻻ يوجد ملخص باللغة العربية
We have detected narrow HI 21cm and CI absorption at $z sim 1.4 - 1.6$ towards Q0458$-$020 and Q2337$-$011, and use these lines to test for possible changes in the fine structure constant $alpha$, the proton-electron mass ratio $mu$, and the proton gyromagnetic ratio $g_p$. A comparison between the HI 21cm and CI line redshifts yields $Delta X/X = [+6.8 pm 1.0] times 10^{-6}$ over $0 < <z> le 1.46$, where $X = g_p alpha^2/mu$, and the errors are purely statistical, from the gaussian fits. The simple line profiles and the high sensitivity of the spectra imply that statistical errors in this comparison are an order of magnitude lower than in previous studies. Further, the CI lines arise in cold neutral gas that also gives rise to HI 21cm absorption, and both background quasars are core-dominated, reducing the likelihood of systematic errors due to local velocity offsets between the hyperfine and resonance lines. The dominant source of systematic error lies in the absolute wavelength calibration of the optical spectra, which appears uncertain to $sim 2$ km/s, yielding a maximum error in $Delta X/X$ of $sim 6.7 times 10^{-6}$. Including this, we obtain $Delta X/X = [+6.8 pm 1.0 (statistical) pm 6.7 (max. systematic)] times 10^{-6}$ over $0 < <z> le 1.46$. Using literature constraints on $Delta mu/mu$, this is inconsistent with claims of a smaller value of $alpha$ from the many-multiplet method, unless fractional changes in $g_p$ are larger than those in $alpha$ and $mu$.
We report Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope and Arecibo Telescope observations of the redshifted satellite OH-18cm lines at $z sim 0.247$ towards PKS1413+135. The conjugate nature of these lines, with one line in emission and the other in absorpti
We have used the Arecibo Telescope to carry out one of the deepest-ever integrations in radio astronomy, targetting the redshifted conjugate satellite OH 18 cm lines at $z approx 0.247$ towards PKS1413+135. The satellite OH 1720 and 1612 MHz lines ar
A new bound dark energy, BDE, cosmology has been proposed where the dark energy is the binding energy between light meson fields that condense a few tens of years after the big bang. It is reported that the correct dark energy density emerges using p
We measure the neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) gas content of field galaxies at intermediate redshifts of z ~ 0.1 and z ~ 0.2 using hydrogen 21-cm emission lines observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT). In order to make high signal
We present VLA H I imaging data for a field in the NW of the galaxy cluster Abell 1367 (z = 0.02) in an attempt to probe the effect environment has on the interstellar medium of late-type spiral galaxies. Several galaxies show pronounced tails and as