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We investigate the 21-cm signature that may arise from the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of full reionization (z>5). In scenarios in which the IGM is reionized by discrete sources of photoionizing radiation, the neutral gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Piero Madau , Avery Meiksin , Martin J. Rees

We present the first >=3.5 sigma (conservative) or >=5.8 sigma (sum of lines significance) detection of two Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) filaments at z>0, which we find along the line of sight to the blazar Mkn 421. These systems…

This paper presents initial results of a systematic search for resonance X-ray absorption lines from H-like O VIII and He-like O VII caused by the intervening warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). The search is based on far ultra-violet…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-03 David Spence , Massimiliano Bonamente , Jussi Ahoranta , Nastasha Wijers , Toni Tuominen , Jelle de Plaa

Cosmic hot-gas emission is closely related to halo gas acquisition and galactic feedback processes. Their X-ray observations reveal important physical properties and movements of the baryonic cycle of galactic ecosystems. However, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Yuning Zhang , Dandan Xu , Chengzhe Li , Wei Cui

The formation mechanism of the hot gaseous halo associated with the Milky Way Galaxy is still under debate. We report new observational constraints on the gaseous halo using 107 lines-of-sight of the Suzaku X-ray observations at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-08 Shinya Nakashima , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Noriko Yamasaki , Yoshiaki Sofue , Jun Kataoka , Kazuhiro Sakai

We present spectroscopic observations of ionized gas in the disk-halo regions of five edge-on galaxies, covering a wavelength range from [OII] 3727A to [SII] 6716.4A. The inclusion of the [OII] emission provides additional constraints on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Otte , J. S. Gallagher , R. J. Reynolds

This paper presents constraints on the cosmological density of baryons from a systematic search for O VII and O VIII absorption lines in the XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray spectra of 51 background sources. The search is based on far…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-30 Massimiliano Bonamente , David Spence , Jussi Ahoranta , Nastasha Wijers , Toni Tuominen , Jelle De Plaa

The fraction of ionized gas in the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium induces temperature anisotropies on the Cosmic Microwave Background similar to those of clusters of galaxies. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich anisotropies due to these low density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ricardo Genova-Santos , Isabel Suarez-Velasquez , Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Jan Muecket

We place general constraints on the luminosity and mass of hot X-ray emitting gas residing in extended "hot halos" around nearby massive galaxies. We examine stacked images of 2165 galaxies from the 2MASS Very Isolated Galaxy Catalog…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michael E. Anderson , Joel N. Bregman , Xinyu Dai

The Millimeter-wave Intensity Mapping Experiment (mmIME) recently reported a detection of excess spatial fluctuations at a wavelength of 3 mm, which can be attributed to unresolved emission of several CO rotational transitions between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 Patrick C. Breysse , Shengqi Yang , Rachel S. Somerville , Anthony R. Pullen , Gergö Popping , Abhishek S. Maniyar

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) has completed a one-degree resolution, velocity-resolved northern sky survey of H-alpha emission from our Galaxy. The unprecedented sensitivity of the instrument and accurate spectral subtraction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. J. Madsen , L. M. Haffner , R. J. Reynolds

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) has surveyed the distribution and kinematics of ionized gas in the Galaxy above declination -30 degrees. The WHAM Northern Sky Survey (WHAM-NSS) has an angular resolution of one degree and provides the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. M. Haffner , R. J. Reynolds , S. L. Tufte , G. J. Madsen , K. P. Jaehnig , J. W. Percival

The current observational status of the hot (log T(K) > 5.5) warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) remains incomplete. While recent observations from stacking large numbers of Cosmic Web filaments have yielded statistically significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 T. Tuominen , J. Nevalainen , P. Heinämäki , E. Tempel , N. Wijers , M. Bonamente , M. A. Aragon-Calvo , A. Finoguenov

The recent detection of optical emission lines from the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in combined, large samples of low-redshift, normal galaxy spectra hints at the potential to map the cool ($\sim$ 10$^4$ K) CGM in individual, representative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Huanian Zhang , Dennis Zaritsky

The morphological, spectroscopic and kinematical properties of the warm interstellar medium (wim) in early-type galaxies (ETGs) hold key observational constraints to nuclear activity and the buildup history of these massive, quiescent…

We find line emission from the hydrogen- and/or helium-like ions of Ne, O, N and C in the low and short-on states of Her X-1, using the XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometer. The emission line velocity broadening is 200 < sigma < 500…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Jimenez-Garate , C. J. Hailey , J. W. den Herder , S. Zane , G. Ramsay

The correlation of weak lensing and Cosmic Microwave Anisotropy (CMB) data traces the pressure distribution of the hot, ionized gas and the underlying matter density field. The measured correlation is dominated by baryons residing in halos.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Atrio-Barandela , J. P. Mücket

We analyze the intracluster medium (ICM) and circumgalactic medium (CGM) in 7 X-ray detected galaxy clusters using spectra of background QSOs (HST-COS/STIS), optical spectroscopy of the cluster galaxies (MMT/Hectospec and SDSS), and X-ray…

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

We present an analysis of the molecular and atomic gas emission in the rest-frame far-infrared and sub-millimetre, from the lensed z=2.3 sub-millimetre galaxy SMM J2135-0102. We obtain very high signal-to-noise detections of 11 transitions…