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It was recently suggested by Boldyrev & Gwinn that the characteristics of radio scintillations from distant pulsars are best understood if the interstellar electron-density fluctuations that cause the time broadening of the radio pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Stanislav Boldyrev , Arieh Konigl

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) remains one of the least constrained components of galaxies and as such has significant potential for advancing galaxy formation theories. In this work, we vary the extragalactic ultraviolet background for a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Lauren Corlies , David Schiminovich

This paper presents ionization-corrected measurements of the carbon abundance in intergalactic gas at 4.0 < z < 4.5, using spectra of three bright quasars obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on Magellan. By measuring the CIV strength in a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Robert A. Simcoe

This paper investigates the distribution and implications of cosmic ray electrons within the intergalactic medium (IGM). Utilizing a synthesis model of the extragalactic background, we evolve the spectrum of Compton-included cosmic rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-13 Yuanyuan Yang , Heyang Long , Christopher M. Hirata

Recent observations with the dispersive X-ray spectrometers aboard Chandra and Newton Observatory have begun to probe the properties of the X-ray intergalactic medium (IGM) at small redshifts. Using large quantities (~950 ksec) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew Rasmussen , Steven M. Kahn , Frits Paerels

Measuring the density of the intergalactic medium using quasar sightlines in the epoch of reionization is challenging due to the saturation of Lyman-$\alpha$ absorption. Near a luminous quasar, however, the enhanced radiation creates a…

We calculate the impact of the intergalactic medium (IGM) on the observed Lyman alpha lines (hereafter Lya) emitted by galaxies in an ionised IGM at z>4. Our model accounts for gas clumping in the IGM and for the fact that high-redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mark Dijkstra , Adam Lidz , Stuart Wyithe

The interstellar medium (ISM) consists of highly ionized and neutral atomic, as well as molecular, components. Knowledge of their distribution is important for tracing the structure and lifecycle of the ISM. Here we determine the properties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 W. D. Langer , P. F. Goldsmith , J. L. Pineda

We discuss the possibility of mapping interstellar clouds at unprecedentedly high spatial resolution by means of near-IR imaging of their scattered light. We calculate the scattering of the interstellar radiation field by a cloud model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Paolo Padoan , Mika Juvela , Veli-Matti Pelkonen

The warm-hot intergalactic medium (warm-hot IGM, or WHIM) pervades the filaments of the Cosmic Web and harbours half of the Universe's baryons. The WHIM's thermodynamic properties are notoriously hard to measure. Here we estimate a galaxy…

To investigate the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) in the solar neighborhood, we analyzed ${\gamma}$-ray data by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) for five nearby molecular cloud regions. Our data includes the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-23 Tsunefumi Mizuno , Katsuhiro Hayashi , Hinako Ochi , Igor V. Moskalenko , Elena Orlando , Andrew W. Strong

We explore the intergalactic medium (IGM) as a potential source of the unresolved soft X-ray background (XRB) and the feasibility to extract the IGM state and evolution from XRB observations. We build two analytical models, the continuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pengjie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen

We use the Simba cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to explore the impact of feedback on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and intergalactic medium (IGM) around $2 \leq z \leq 3$ quasars. We identify quasars in Simba as the most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-16 Daniele Sorini , Romeel Davé , Daniel Anglés-Alcázar

Our knowledge of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is mostly based on quasar absorption-line measurements. These have uncovered a multiphase medium that is likely highly turbulent, but constraints of this turbulence are limited to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-24 Brad Koplitz , Edward Buie , Evan Scannapieco

We study 21cm and Ly$\mathrm{\alpha}$ fluctuations, as well as H$\mathrm{\alpha}$, while distinguishing between Ly$\mathrm{\alpha}$ emission of galactic, diffuse, and scattered intergalactic medium (IGM) origin. Cross-correlation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Caroline Heneka , Asantha Cooray , Chang Feng

Abridged. Understanding the detailed structure of the interstellar gas is essential for our knowledge of the star formation process. The small-scale structure of the interstellar medium (ISM) is a direct consequence of the galactic scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Patrick Hennebelle

We determine the thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) over $3\, \mathrm{Gyr}$ of cosmic time $1.8<z<5.4$ by comparing measurements of the Ly{\alpha} forest power spectrum to a suite of $\sim70$ hydrodynamical simulations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Michael Walther , Jose Oñorbe , Joseph F. Hennawi , Zarija Lukić

We present a comparison of the physical properties of the ionized gas in the circumgalactic (CGM) and intergalactic (IGM) media at $z\sim0$ between observations and four cosmological hydrodynamical simulations: Illustris, TNG300 of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 S. H. Lim , David Barnes , Mark Vogelsberger , H. J. Mo , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Klaus Dolag , Federico Marinacci

Aims: Stars twinkle because their light propagates through the atmosphere. The same phenomenon is expected at a longer time scale when the light of remote stars crosses an interstellar molecular cloud, but it has never been observed at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-24 F. Habibi , Marc Moniez , R. Ansari , S. Rahvar

Scintillator detector response modelling has become an essential tool in various research fields such as particle and nuclear physics, astronomy or geophysics. Yet, due to the system complexity and the requirement for accurate electron…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-05 David Breitenmoser , Francesco Cerutti , Gernot Butterweck , Malgorzata Magdalena Kasprzak , Sabine Mayer