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We present the first results on the diffuse transition clouds observed in [CII] line emission at 158 microns (1.9 THz) towards Galactic longitudes near 340deg (5 LOSs) and 20deg (11 LOSs) as part of the GOT C+ survey. Out of the total 146…

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We present an ultraviolet quasar absorption line analysis of metal lines associated with three strong intervening H I absorbers (with $N$(H I) $>$ 10$^{16.5}$ cm$^{-2}$) detected in the outskirts of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect-selected…

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We present an in-depth analysis of gas morphologies for a sample of 25 Milky Way-like galaxies from the IllustrisTNG TNG50 simulation. We constrain the morphology of cold, warm, hot gas, and gas particles as a whole using a Local Shell…

We report FUSE far-UV spectroscopy of the prototypical dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 1705. These data allow us for the first time to probe the coronal-phase gas (T = 10E5 to 10E6 K) that may dominate the radiative cooling of the…

The rotational transitions of carbon monoxide (CO) are the primary means of investigating the density and velocity structure of the molecular interstellar medium. Here we study the lowest four rotational transitions of CO towards…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 James G. Ingalls , T. M. Bania , Adair P. Lane , Matthias Rumitz , Antony A. Stark

In order to study the temperature distribution of the extended gas within the Orion Kleinmann-Low nebula, we have mapped the emission by methyl cyanide (CH3CN) in its J=6_K-5_K, J=12_K-11_K, J=13_K-12_K, and J=14_K-13_K transitions at an…

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We present an analytic model for the cool, $T \approx 10^4$ K, circumgalactic medium (CGM), describing the gas distribution, thermal and ionization state. Our model assumes (total) pressure equilibrium with the ambient warm/hot CGM,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-03 Yakov Faerman , Jessica K. Werk

We show that the ultraviolet absorption features, newly discovered in HST spectra, are consistent with being formed in a layer that extends a few kpc above the disk of the Milky Way. In this interface between the disk and the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Filippo Fraternali , Antonino Marasco , Federico Marinacci , James Binney

High resolution X-ray absorption spectroscopy is a powerful diagnostic tool for probing chemical and physical properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) at various phases. We present detections of K transition absorption lines from the low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Yangsen Yao , Norbert S. Schulz , Ming F. Gu , Michael A. Nowak , Claude R. Canizares

We searched for absorption lines of highly ionized O and Ne in the energy spectra of two Low-mass X-ray binaries, 4U1820-303 in the globular cluster NGC6624 and Cyg X-2, observed with the Chandra LETG, and detected O VII, O VIII and Ne IX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuo Futamoto , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Yoh Takei , Ryuichi Fujimoto , Noriko Yamasaki

We present a large sample of H- and K-band spectra of 32 optically line luminous central cluster galaxies. We find significant rovibrational H_2 emission in 23 of these galaxies as well as H recombination and/or [FeII] emission in another…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 A. C. Edge , R. J. Wilman , R. M. Johnstone , C. S. Crawford , A. C. Fabian , S. W. Allen

We used the KOSMA 3m telescope to map the core 7'x5' of the Galactic massive star forming region W3Main in the two fine structure lines of atomic carbon and four mid-J transitions of CO and 13CO. The maps are centered on the luminous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Kramer , H. Jakob , B. Mookerjea , N. Schneider , M. Bruell , J. Stutzki

Turbulent mixing layers (TMLs) are ubiquitous in multiphase gas. They can potentially explain observations of high ions such as O VI, which have significant observed column densities despite short cooling times. Previously, we showed that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-01 Brent Tan , S. Peng Oh

We analyze a pair of Suzaku shadowing observations in order to determine the X-ray spectrum of the Galaxy's gaseous halo. We simultaneously fit the spectra with models having halo, local, and extragalactic components. The intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-07-24 Shijun Lei , Robin L. Shelton , David B. Henley

In preparation for a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observing project using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), the positions of all AGN targets having high-S/N far-UV G130M spectra were cross-correlated with a large catalog of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 John Stocke , Brian Keeney , Charles Danforth , Ben Oppenheimer , Cameron Pratt , Andreas Berlind

The diffuse gas in and nearby the Milky Way plays an important role in the evolution of the entire Galaxy. It has a complex structure characterized by neutral, weakly and highly ionized gas, dust, and molecules. We probe this gas through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-19 C. Pinto , G. A. Kriss , J. S. Kaastra , E. Costantini , J. Ebrero , K. C. Steenbrugge , M. Mehdipour , G. Ponti

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) at the center of our Galaxy is the best template to study star formation processes under extreme conditions, similar to those in high-redshift galaxies. We observed on-the-fly maps of para-H$_{2}$CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 K. Immer , J. Kauffmann , T. Pillai , A. Ginsburg , K. M. Menten

We investigate the origin and physical properties of OVI absorbers at low redshift (z = 0.25) using a subset of cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations from the OverWhelmingly Large Simulations (OWLS) project. Intervening OVI absorbers are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-29 Thorsten Tepper-Garcia , Philipp Richter , Joop Schaye , C. M. Booth , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , Tom Theuns , Robert P. C. Wiersma

We combine observations of spiral galaxies in the [CII] line at 158 micron, made with the Long Wavelength Spectrometer aboard ISO, with previous data from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory to study the origin of this line, which is the main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Pierini , J. Lequeux , A. Boselli , K. J. Leech , H. J. Voelk

High signal-to-noise spectra toward background quasars are crucial for uncovering weak absorption in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of intervening galaxies, such as the diagnostic lines of N V that provide insight to the ionization process…