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We present all-sky maps of two major FUV cooling lines, C IV and O VI, of highly ionized gas to investigate the nature of the transition-temperature gas. From the extinction-corrected line intensities of C IV and O VI, we calculated the gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Young-Soo Jo , Kwang-il Seon , Kyoung-Wook Min , Jerry Edelstein , Wonyong Han

FUV observations have revealed the transition temperature gas (TTG; $\log{T({\mathrm{K}})}$ ~ 5), located in the lower Galactic halo and in the High Velocity Clouds. However, the corresponding X-ray absorption has so far remained mostly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-13 J. Nevalainen , B. Wakker , J. Kaastra , M. Bonamente , S. Snowden , F. Paerels , C. de Vries

The cooling transition temperature gas in the interstellar medium (ISM), traced by the high ions, Si IV, C IV, N V, and O VI, helps to constrain the flow of energy from the hot ISM with T >10^6 K to the warm ISM with T< 2x10^4 K. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Lehner , W. F. Zech , J. C. Howk , B. D. Savage

We present a unified analysis of the O{\sc vi} absorption-lines seen in the disk and halo of the Milky Way, high velocity clouds, the Magellanic Clouds, starburst galaxies, and the intergalactic medium. We show that these disparate systems…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. M. Heckman , C. A. Norman , D. K. Strickland , K. R. Sembach

We present Suzaku spectra of X-ray emission in the fields just off the LMC X-3 sight line. OVII, OVIII, and NeIX emission lines are clearly detected, suggesting the presence of an optically thin thermal plasma with an average temperature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Y. Yao , Q. D. Wang , T. Hagihara , K. Mitsuda , D. McCammon , N. Y. Yamasaki

We construct an analytic phenomenological model for extended warm/hot gaseous coronae of $L_*$ galaxies. We consider UV OVI COS-Halos absorption line data in combination with Milky Way X-ray OVII and OVIII absorption and emission. We fit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-25 Yakov Faerman , Amiel Sternberg , Christopher F. McKee

To probe the distribution and physical characteristics of interstellar gas at temperatures T ~ 3e5 K in the disk of the Milky Way, we have used the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) to observe absorption lines of OVI toward 148…

Disc galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to be surrounded by massive coronae of hot plasma that may contain a significant fraction of the so-called missing baryons. We investigate whether the local (|vLSR|<400 km/s) warm-hot absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Marasco , F. Marinacci , F. Fraternali

We present a simple model that explains the origin of warm diffuse gas seen primarily as highly ionized absorption line systems in the spectra of background sources. We predict the observed column densities of several highly ionized…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-01 Rongmon Bordoloi , Alexander Y. Wagner , Timothy M. Heckman , Colin A. Norman

Diffuse hot gas can be traced effectively by its X-ray absorption and emission. We present a joint-analysis of these tracers to characterize the spatial and temperature distributions of the Galactic hot gas along the sight-line toward the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yangsen Yao , Q. Daniel Wang

Early-type galaxies often contain a hot X-ray emitting interstellar medium (3-8E6 K) with an apparent radiative cooling time much less than a Hubble time. If unopposed by a heating mechanism, the gas will radiatively cool to temperatures <=…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel N. Bregman , Eric D. Miller , Alex E. Athey , Jimmy A. Irwin

The Milky Way is surrounded by large amounts of hot gas at temperatures T>10^6 K, which represents a major baryon reservoir. We here explore the prospects of studying the hot coronal gas in Milky Way halo by analyzing the highly forbidden…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-10 P. Richter , F. Ruenger , N. Lehner , J. C. Howk , C. Peroux , N. Libeskind , M. Steinmetz , R. de Jong

X-ray absorption lines of highly-ionized species such as OVII at about zero redshift have been firmly detected in the spectra of several active galactic nuclei. However, the location of the absorbing gas remains a subject of debate. To…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. D. Wang , Y. Yao , T. M. Tripp , T. -T. Fang , W. Cui , F. Nicastro , S. Mathur , R. J. Williams , L. Song , R. Croft

The galactic gaseous halo is a gas reservoir for the interstellar medium in the galaxy disk, supplying materials for star formation. We developed a gaseous halo model connecting the galaxy disk and the gaseous halo by assuming the star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman

FUSE spectra of 100 extragalactic objects are analyzed to obtain measures of O VI absorption along paths through the Milky Way thick disk/halo. Strong O VI absorption over the approximate velocity range from -100 to 100 km/s reveals a…

Spectra of about 150 early-type stars in the disk of the Milky Way recorded by the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) reveal absorption features from interstellar O VI, a tracer of collisionally ionized gases at temperatures near…

The high ionization-state ions trace the hot gases in the universe, of which gaseous halos around galaxies are a major contributor. Following Qu & Bregman (2018), we calculate the gaseous halo contribution to the observed column density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman

We use spectroscopic data from HST and FUSE to study the wide range of ionization states of the "highly ionized high-velocity clouds". Studied extensively in OVI absorption, these clouds are usually assumed to be infalling gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux

We outline the results from a FUSE Team program designed to characterize OVI absorption in the disk of the Milky Way. We find that OVI absorption occurs throughout most of the Galactic plane, at least out to several kpc from the Sun, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Bowen , E. B. Jenkins , T. M. Tripp , K. R. Sembach , B. D. Savage

Many of the baryons associated with a galaxy reside in its circumgalactic medium (CGM), in a diffuse volume-filling phase at roughly the virial temperature. Much of the oxygen produced over cosmic time by the galaxy's stars also ends up…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-14 G. M. Voit
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