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The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey (GDIGS) is a fully-sampled radio recombination line (RRL) survey of the inner Galaxy at C-band (4-8 GHz). We average together ~15 Hn$\alpha$ RRLs within the receiver bandpass to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Matteo Luisi , L. D. Anderson , Bin Liu , Dana S. Balser , T. M. Bania , Trey V. Wenger , L. M. Haffner

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…

As part of a large study to map the distribution of star formation across galactic disks, we have obtained deep Halpha images of the nearby Sculptor Group spirals NGC 247 and NGC 7793. These images are of sufficiently high quality that they…

HII regions are the ionized spheres surrounding high-mass stars. They are ideal targets for tracing Galactic structure because they are predominantly found in spiral arms and have high luminosities at infrared and radio wavelengths. In the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 L. D. Anderson , L. A. Hough , T. V. Wenger , T. M. Bania , Dana S. Balser

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…

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…

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

The Diffuse Ionized Gas (DIG) contributes to the nebular emission of galaxies, resulting in emission line flux ratios that can be significantly different from those produced by HII regions. Comparing the emission of [SII]6717,31 between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 F. Mannucci , F. Belfiore , M. Curti , G. Cresci , R. Maiolino , A. Marasco , A. Marconi , M. Mingozzi , G. Tozzi , A. Amiri

We present a study of diffuse extended ionised gas toward three clouds located in the Galactic Centre (GC). One line of sight (LOS) is toward the 20 km s$^{-1}$ cloud (LOS$-$0.11) in the Sgr A region, another LOS is toward the 50 km…

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey (GDIGS) traces ionized gas in the Galactic midplane by observing radio recombination line (RRL) emission from 4-8 GHz. The nominal survey zone is $32.3^{\circ}> {\ell} > -5^{\circ}$,…

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

In a search for the signature of turbulence in the diffuse interstellar medium in gas density distributions, we determined the probability distribution functions (PDFs) of the average volume densities of the diffuse gas. The densities were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Berkhuijsen , A. Fletcher

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

We present a study of the diffuse ionized gas (DIG) in three Sculptor group galaxies: NGC 55, NGC 253, and NGC 300. The study is based on narrow band imagery in H-alpha+[NII](6548+6583A) and [SII] (6717+6731A). We find that DIG contributes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Charles G. Hoopes , Rene A. M. Walterbos , Bruce E. Greenawalt

Observations of ionised H$\alpha$ gas in high-redshift disc galaxies have ubiquitously found significant line broadening, $\sigma_{\rm H\alpha}\sim10-100$ km s$^{-1}$. To understand whether this broadening reflects gas turbulence within the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-17 Timmy Ejdetjärn , Oscar Agertz , Göran Östlin , Martin P. Rey , Florent Renaud

As one of the major components of the interstellar medium, the ionized gas in our Milky Way, especially the low-density diffuse component, has not been extensively observed in the radio band. The Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-01 L. G. Hou , J. L. Han , Tao Hong , X. Y. Gao , Chen Wang

Aims: We derive the 3-D HI volume density distribution for the Galactic disk out to R = 60 kpc. Methods: Our analysis is based on parameters for the warp and rotation curve derived previously. The data are taken from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. M. W. Kalberla , L. Dedes

We have obtained sensitive long-slit spectra of Diffuse Ionized Gas (DIG) in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, covering the wavelength range of 3550-6850 Angs. By co-adding extracted DIG spectra, we reached a 1 sigma uncertainty of 9.3E-19…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Greenawalt , R. A. M. Walterbos , R. Braun

We have studied the differences between the diffuse ionized gas (DIG) and the HII regions along a slit position in the local dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. The slit position passes through the two most prominent HII regions: Hubble V and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Hidalgo-Gamez , A. Peimbert

The diffuse ionized gas (DIG) is an important component of the interstellar medium and it can be affected by many physical processes in galaxies. Measuring its distribution and contribution in emission allows us to properly study both its…

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