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spacecraft, portrays the hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen and used the wavelength as a standard scale of measurement. For example, the height of the woman in the image is displayed as eight times 21 cm, or 168 cm. Similarly the frequency of the hydrogen spin-flip transition was used
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just as two magnets will align so that the north pole of one is closest to the south pole of the other. This logic fails here because the wave functions of the electron and the proton overlap; that is, the electron is not spatially displaced from the proton, but encompasses it. The magnetic dipole
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published "Searching for interstellar communications", a paper proposing the 21 cm hydrogen line and the potential of microwaves in the search for interstellar communications. According to George Basalla, the paper by Cocconi and Morrison "provided a reasonable theoretical basis" for the
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Wang, Jingying; Xu, Haiguang; An, Tao; Gu, Junhua; Guo, Xueying; Li, Weitian; Wang, Yu; Liu, Chengze; Martineau-Huynh, Olivier; Wu, Xiang-Ping (2013-01-14). "Exploring the cosmic reionization epoch in frequency space: An improved approach to remove the foreground in 21 cm tomography".
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hydrogen line. It is then possible to use the plot of the rotation curve and the velocity to determine the distance to a certain point within the galaxy. However, a limitation of this method is that departures from circular motion are observed at various scales.
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During the 1930s, it was noticed that there was a radio "hiss" that varied on a daily cycle and appeared to be extraterrestrial in origin. After initial suggestions that this was due to the Sun, it was observed that the radio waves seemed to propagate from the
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whose rotation period circa 1977 is given as a multiple of the frequency of the hydrogen spin-flip transition. It is theorized by the plaque's creators that an advanced civilization would then be able to use the locations of these pulsars to locate the
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Deuterium has a similar hyperfine spectral line at 91.6 cm (327 MHz), and the relative strength of the 21 cm line to the 91.6 cm line can be used to measure the deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratio. One group in 2007 reported D/H ratio in the
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Skywaves are not used in the UHF band because the ionosphere is not sufficiently dense to reflect the waves, which pass through it into space. ... Reception of UHF signals is virtually free from fading and interference from atmospheric
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in the period after recombination. Second, it can provide a picture of how the universe was re‑ionized, as neutral hydrogen which has been ionized by radiation from stars or quasars will appear as holes in the 21 cm background.
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to be exact). Electromagnetic energy in this range can easily pass through the Earth's atmosphere and be observed from the Earth with little interference. The hydrogen line can readily penetrate clouds of interstellar
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on the galaxy. Despite these problems, 21 cm observations, along with space-based gravitational wave observations, are generally viewed as the next great frontier in observational cosmology, after the
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of the system. When the spins are parallel, the magnetic dipole moments are antiparallel (because the electron and proton have opposite charge), thus one would expect this configuration to actually have
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Loeb, A.; Zaldarriaga, M. (2004). "Measuring the small-scale power spectrum of cosmic density fluctuations through 21 cm tomography prior to the epoch of structure formation".
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However, 21 cm observations are very difficult to make. Ground-based experiments to observe the faint signal are plagued by interference from television transmitters and the
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moments are therefore best thought of as tiny current loops. As parallel currents attract, the parallel magnetic dipole moments (i.e., antiparallel spins) have lower energy.
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A hydrogen atom with proton and electron spins aligned (top) undergoes a flip of the electron spin, resulting in emission of a photon with a 21 cm wavelength (bottom)
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Mhaske, Ashish A.; et al. (August 2022). "A Bose horn antenna radio telescope (BHARAT) design for 21 cm hydrogen line experiments for radio astronomy teaching".
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van de Hulst, H. C.; et al. (May 1954). "The spiral structure of the outer part of the Galactic System derived from the hydrogen emission at 21 cm wavelength".
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Verschuur, G. L. (September 1968). "Positive Determination of an Interstellar Magnetic Field by Measurement of the Zeeman Splitting of the 21-cm Hydrogen Line".
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and Hindman in Australia. After 1952 the first maps of the neutral hydrogen in the Galaxy were made, and revealed for the first time the spiral structure of the
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Pen, Ue-Li; Wu, Xiang-Ping; Peterson, Jeff (5 April 2004). "Forecast for Epoch-of-Reionization as viewable by the PrimevAl Structure Telescope (PAST)".
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Kohler, Katharina; et al. (November 2005). "Redshifted 21 cm Emission from the Pre-Reionization Era. II. H II Regions around Individual Quasars".
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Muller, C.A.; Oort, J.H. (September 1951). "The interstellar hydrogen line at 1,420 Mc./sec., and an estimate of galactic rotation".
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Hydrogen line observations have been used indirectly to calculate the mass of galaxies, to put limits on any changes over time of the
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Santos, M.G.; Cooray, A.; Knox, L. (2005). "Multifrequency analysis of 21 cm fluctuations from the era of reionization".
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Peters, Wendy M.; et al. (January 2011). "Radio Recombination Lines at Decameter Wavelengths: Prospects for the Future".
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Zaldarriaga, M.; Furlanetto, S.; Hernquist, L. (2004). "21 centimeter fluctuations from cosmic gas at high redshifts".
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because it can be used to study the early Universe. Due to its fundamental properties, this line is of interest in the
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Ciardi, B.; Madau, P. (2003). "Probing beyond the epoch of hydrogen reionization with 21 centimeter radiation".
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Barkana, R.; Loeb, A. (2005). "Detecting the earliest galaxies through two new sources of 21 cm fluctuations".
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Madau, P.; Meiksin, A.; Rees, M.J. (1997). "21 cm tomography of the intergalactic medium at high redshift".
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program in their search for signals from potential extraterrestrial civilizations. In 1959, Italian physicist
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Fialkov, A.; Loeb, A. (November 2013). "The 21-cm Signal from the cosmological epoch of recombination".
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of redshifted 21 centimeter radiation it can, in principle, provide a very precise picture of the
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in 1951. Observations of the hydrogen line have been used to reveal the spiral shape of the
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The hyperfine transition of hydrogen, as depicted on the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft.
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used by Ewen and Purcell for the first detection of hydrogen line emission from the
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for a unit of time in a map to Earth included on the Pioneer plaques and also the
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Wang, Xiaomin; et al. (October 2006). "21 cm Tomography with Foregrounds".
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Griffiths, D.J. (1982). "Hyperfine splitting in the ground state of hydrogen".
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probes. On this map, the position of the Sun is portrayed relative to 14 
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Drinkwater, M. J.; Webb, J. K–; Barrow, J. D.; Flambaum, V. V. (April 1998).
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who knew that significant advances could be made in astronomy if there were
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The 21 cm hydrogen line is considered a favorable frequency by the
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cosmology because it is the only known way to probe the cosmological "
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caused by bulk motion or nonzero temperature of the emitting regions.
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The 21 cm line (1420.4 MHz) was first detected in 1951 by
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Spectral line of hydrogen state transition in UHF radio frequencies
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Rogers, A. E. E.; Dudevoir, K. A.; Bania, T. M. (2007-03-09).
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on the 21-cm line; a task that was first accomplished by
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between these aligned states has an energy difference of
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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proposed SETI use a frequency which is equal to either
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in the radio part of the spectrum. He referred this to
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Relevance to the search for non-human intelligent life
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in 1968. In theory, it may be possible to search for
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Index

21 cm radiation
hydrogen spectral series

spectral line
solitary
electrically neutral
hydrogen atoms
spin
quantum state
hyperfine levels
1
s
ground state
electromagnetic radiation
frequency
MHz
wavelength
vacuum
Planck–Einstein relation
photon
energy
eV
constant of proportionality
Planck constant
L band
microwave
electromagnetic spectrum
radio astronomy
radio waves
cosmic dust

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