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Dark gas in the interstellar medium (ISM) is believed to not be detectable either in CO or Hi radio emission, but it is detected by other means including gamma-rays, dust emission and extinction traced outside the Galactic plane at |b|>5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. Fukui , K. Torii , T. Onishi , H. Yamamoto , R. Okamoto , T. Hayakawa , K. Tachihara , H. Sano

In this work, we investigate the contribution of dust scattering to the diffuse H-alpha emission observed in nearby galaxies. As initial conditions for the spatial distribution of HII regions, gas, and dust, we take three Milky Way-like…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-29 Y. Ascasibar , G. Guidi , J. Casado , C. Scannapieco , A. I. Díaz

Turbulence is a complex phenomenon that plays a critical role in the interstellar medium (ISM). Previous simulations and observations show that the probability density function (PDF) of gas density in isothermal and compressible systems…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 Xunchuan Liu

Far-infrared molecular emission is an important tool used to understand the excitation mechanisms of the gas in the inter-stellar medium of star-forming galaxies. In the present work, we model the emission from rotational transitions with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 M. V. Kazandjian , I. Pelupessy , R. Meijerink , F. P. Israel , C. M. Coppola , M. J. F. Rosenberg , M. Spaans

We use integral field spectroscopy from the PHANGS-MUSE survey, which resolves the ionised interstellar medium at ${\sim}50$ pc resolution in 19 nearby spiral galaxies, to study the origin of the diffuse ionised gas (DIG). We examine the…

We present an analysis of the diffuse ionised gas (DIG) in a high-resolution simulation of an isolated Milky Way-like galaxy, incorporating on-the-fly radiative transfer and non-equilibrium thermochemistry. We utilise the Monte-Carlo…

We use the COBE/DIRBE (1.2, 2.2, 60, 100, 140, and 240 $\mu$m) maps and the COBE/FIRAS spectra (for the wavelength range 100 - 1000 $\mu$m) to constrain a model for the spatial distribution of the dust, the stars, and the gas in the Milky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Misiriotis , E. M. Xilouris , J. Papamastorakis , P. Boumis , C. D. Goudis

Using data from the LAMOST Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Nebulae, we create a sample of 17,821 diffuse ionized gas (DIG) spectra in the anti-center region of the Milky Way, by excluding fibers in the directions of H II regions…

The physical properties of Milky Way Mgii-bearing gas remain poorly constrained due to the saturation of the near-UV doublet. We utilize the weaker Mgii $\lambda\lambda$1239, 1240 doublet from 482 archival HST/COS extragalactic sightlines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Xiaochuan Jiang , Taotao Fang , Shulan Yan

Sensitive ground-based submillimeter surveys, such as ATLASGAL, provide a global view on the distribution of cold dense gas in the Galactic plane. Here we use the 353 GHz maps from the Planck/HFI instrument to complement the ground-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 T. Csengeri , A. Weiss , F. Wyrowski , K. M. Menten , J. S. Urquhart , S. Leurini , F. Schuller , H. Beuther , S. Bontemps , L. Bronfman , Th. Henning , N. Schneider

Compressive isothermal turbulence is known to have a near lognormal density probability distribution function (PDF) with a width that scales with the sonic Mach number and nature of the turbulent driving (solenoidal vs compressive).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart

The spatial distribution of the gaseous components of the Milky Way is of great importance for a number of different fields, for example, Galactic structure, star formation, and cosmic rays. However, obtaining distance information to…

We study the effect of density fluctuations induced by turbulence on the HI/H$_2$ structure in photodissociation regions (PDRs) both analytically and numerically. We perform magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations for both subsonic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Shmuel Bialy , Blakesley Burkhart , Amiel Sternberg

High--resolution 2D--MHD numerical simulations have been carried out to investigate the effects of continuing infall of clumpy gas in extended HI galactic disks. Given a certain accretion rate, the response of the disk depends on its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Santillan , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , J. Franco

The probability density function (PDF) of the logarithmic density contrast, $s=\ln (\rho/\rho_0)$, with gas density $\rho$ and mean density $\rho_0$, for hydrodynamical supersonic turbulence is well-known to have significant non-Gaussian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 James R. Beattie , Philip Mocz , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen

We use star, galaxy and quasar spectra taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to map out the distribution of diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) induced by the Milky Way. We show that, after carefully removing the intrinsic spectral energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-10 Ting-Wen Lan , Brice Ménard , Guangtun Zhu

Aims: We systematically explore a plausible subset of the parameter space involving effective temperatures and metallicities of the ionizing stellar sources, the effects of the hardening of their radiation by surrounding leaky HII regions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-13 J. A. Weber , A. W. A. Pauldrach , T. L. Hoffmann

The structure of molecular clouds can be characterized with the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density. In particular, the properties of the distribution can reveal the nature of the turbulence and star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Rachel L. Ward , James Wadsley , Alison Sills

Turbulence is essential for understanding the structure and dynamics of molecular clouds and star-forming regions. There is a need for adequate tools to describe and characterize the properties of turbulent flows. One-point probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ralf S. Klessen

Ionized interstellar gas is an important component of the interstellar medium and its lifecycle. The recent evidence for a widely distributed highly ionized warm interstellar gas with a density intermediate between the warm ionized medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 W. D. Langer , J. L. Pineda , P. F. Goldsmith , E. T. Chambers , D. Riquelme , L. D. Anderson , M. Luisi , M. Justen , C. Buchbender