General information

With data from the new radio telescopes, pathfinders/precursors of SKA slowly starting to appear, it is a good time to have a community get together for those who are interested in using these telescopes for HI absorption studies.
The workshop will cover science topics that can be addressed using HI absorption (intervening and associated), including what we can learn about the feedback effects of AGNs on galaxy evolution, the properties of the ISM of galaxies at higher redshift, and the cosmic evolution of HI. The workshop aims to discuss the current state of affairs as well as the progress we hope to make with the upcoming surveys, and the technical tools that are being developed to make that progress.

The topics we would like to discuss are:

• overview of the latest observational results;
• status of the telescopes and the data available from early science observations;
• plans and planning for the surveys;
• experience built in the last years and the tools available for the handling and analysis of new data;
• follow-up and ancillary data: molecular gas, optical identifications, high-resolution radio data;
• requirements and possibilities for comparison with numerical simulations

The format will be informal as much as possible, with all participants encouraged to present their on-going work and future plans in this field. Hopefully this will also allow new collaborations to start and to find common ground and synergy between different projects.

E-mail: secretaryastronomy@astron.nl