neutral hydrogen absorber

C40746
concept

A neutral hydrogen absorber is an astronomical system or region containing sufficient neutral hydrogen gas to produce detectable absorption features, typically in the Lyman series, in the spectrum of a background light source such as a quasar or galaxy.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
neutral hydrogen absorber canonical 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: neutral hydrogen absorber
Generated description
A neutral hydrogen absorber is an astronomical system or region containing sufficient neutral hydrogen gas to produce detectable absorption features, typically in the Lyman series, in the spectrum of a background light source such as a quasar or galaxy.

Instances (1)

Instance Via concept surface
damped Lyman-alpha systems
surface form: damped Lyman-alpha system