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We describe an extensive FUSE survey of highly ionized oxygen in the vicinity of the Milky Way that serves as an example of the type of study that would be desirable for other galactic systems. Understanding the origin of hot gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. R. Sembach , B. P. Wakker , B. D. Savage , P. Richter , M. Meade

We use FUSE and STIS spectra to study intergalactic absorption towards the quasar PG1259+593 (z=0.478). We identify 135 intergalactic absorption lines with equivalent widths >10mA, tracing 78 absorption components in 72 Ly alpha/beta…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Philipp Richter , Blair D. Savage , Todd M. Tripp , Kenneth R. Sembach

Known as the "Missing Baryon Problem", about one-third of baryons in the local universe remain unaccounted for. The missing baryons are thought to reside in the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) of the cosmic web filaments, which are…

With high resolution (0.46kpc/h), adaptive mesh-refinement Eulerian cosmological hydrodynamic simulations we compute properties of O VI and O VII absorbers from the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). Our new simulations are in broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Renyue Cen

A definite prediction from recent N-body/hydro simulations of the structure formation of the universe is the presence of a diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) in a temperature range of 10^5 - 10^7 K. This hot phase of the IGM may account for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. Daniel Wang

X-ray observations of the Galactic X-ray binaries (XRB) revealed numerous highly ionized metal absorption lines. However, it is unclear whether such lines are produced by the hot interstellar medium (ISM) or the circumstellar medium (CSM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Luo , Taotao Fang

The Universe has evolved from an initial diffuse, uniform gas to a complex structure that includes both voids and high-density galaxy clusters connected by gaseous filaments, known as the Cosmic Web, and traced by 3D surveys of galaxies.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-28 Giulia Cerini , Nico Cappelluti , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Eugenio Ursino

Most of the baryonic mass in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a spiral galaxy is believed to be warm-hot, with temperature around $10^6$K. The narrow OVI absorption lines probe a somewhat cooler component at $\log \rm T(K)= 5.5$, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 Smita Mathur , Anjali Gupta , Sanskriti Das , Yair Krongold , Fabrizio Nicastro

We use the EAGLE (Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments) cosmological simulation to study the distribution of baryons, and far-ultraviolet (O VI), extreme-ultraviolet (Ne VIII) and X-ray (O VII, O VIII, Ne IX, and Fe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-07 Nastasha A. Wijers , Joop Schaye , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

Numerical simulations of the intergalactic medium have shown that at the present epoch a significant fraction (40-50%) of the baryonic component should be found in the (T~10^6K) Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) - with several recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Renyue Cen , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

A significant fraction of the local Universe's baryonic content remains undetected. Cosmological simulations indicate that most of the missing baryons reside in cosmic filaments in the form of warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-19 Konstantinos Migkas , Florian Pacaud , Toni Tuominen , Nabila Aghanim

About 30-50% of the baryons in the local Universe are unaccounted for and are likely in a hot phase, 10^5.5-10^8 K. A hot halo (10^6.3 K) is detected around the Milky Way through the O VII and O VIII resonance absorption and emission lines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Joel N. Bregman , Guilherme Camargo Alves , Matthew J. Miller , Edmund Hodges-Kluck

The properties of the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) in cosmic filaments are among the least quantified units in modern astrophysics. The Spectrum Roentgen Gamma/eROSITA All Sky Survey ((SRG/eRASS) provides a unique opportunity to…

We present an analysis of the Lyman alpha forests of five quasar spectra in the near UV. Properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) at an intermediate redshift interval (0.9 < z < 1.9) are studied. The amount of baryons in the diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-04 N. Prause , D. Reimers , C. Fechner , E. Janknecht

There is increasing observational evidence that hot, highly ionized interstellar and intergalactic gas plays a significant role in the evolution of galaxies in the local universe. The primary spectral diagnostics of the warm-hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth R. Sembach

We search for highly-ionized gas near three AGN host galaxies using the Chandra low-energy transmission grating spectrograph. Strong absorption lines from such gas are seen at z=0, most likely from one or more of the following components:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-25 Rik J. Williams , Smita Mathur , Fabrizio Nicastro

Time evolution of the ionization state of metals in the cosmic baryons is investigated in a cosmological context without the assumption of ionization equilibrium. We find that a significant fraction of ionized oxygen ions (OVII and OVIII)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kohji Yoshikawa , Shin Sasaki

We report on a systematic investigation of the cold and mildly ionized gaseous baryonic metal components of our Galaxy, through the analysis of high resolution Chandra and XMM-Newton spectra of two samples of Galactic and extragalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 F. Nicastro , F. Senatore , A. Gupta , M. Guainazzi , S. Mathur , Y. Krongold , M. Elvis , L. Piro

The Warm Ionized Medium (WIM), also referred to as Diffuse Ionized Gas, contains most of the mass of interstellar medium in ionized form, contributing as much as 30% of the total atomic gas mass in the solar neighborhood. The advent of CCDs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rene A. M. Walterbos

We have used the WHAM H_alpha survey and Leiden/Dwingeloo HI data to decompose the Far-infrared emission (from 100 to 1000 micron) at high Galactic latitude into components associated with the Warm Ionised Medium (WIM) and the Warm Neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 G. Lagache , L. M. Haffner , R. J. Reynolds , S. L. Tufte