{"paper":{"title":"Accurate measurement of the HI column density from HI 21cm absorption-emission spectroscopy","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.CO"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.GA","authors_text":"(2) Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Germany), India, Jayaram N. Chengalur (1), Nirupam Roy (2) ((1) National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Nissim Kanekar (1)","submitted_at":"2013-05-04T19:52:36Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present a detailed study of an estimator of the HI column density, based on a combination of HI 21cm absorption and HI 21cm emission spectroscopy. This \"isothermal\" estimate is given by $N_{\\rm HI,ISO} = 1.823 \\times 10^{18} \\int \\left[ \\tau_{\\rm tot} \\times {\\rm T_B} \\right] / \\left[ 1 - e^{-\\tau_{\\rm tot}} \\right] {\\rm dV}$, where $\\tau_{\\rm tot}$ is the total HI 21cm optical depth along the sightline and ${\\rm T_B}$ is the measured brightness temperature. We have used a Monte Carlo simulation to quantify the accuracy of the isothermal estimate by comparing the derived $N_{\\rm HI,ISO}$ wi"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1305.0951","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}