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Observations have suggested substantial departures from pressure equilibrium in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the plane of the Galaxy, even on scales under 50 pc. Nevertheless, multi-phase models of the ISM assume at least locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Dinshaw Balsara , Miguel A. Avillez , Jongsoo Kim

The wavelength range 912-2000A (hereafter far-UV) provides access to absorption lines of the interstellar medium (ISM), circumgalactic medium (CGM), and intergalactic medium (IGM) in phases spanning a wide range of ionization, density,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-19 V. Lebouteiller , D. Kunth , J. Roman-Duval , P. Richter , C. Gry , B. James , A. Aloisi

Radio waves propagating from distant pulsars in the interstellar medium (ISM), are refracted by electron density inhomogeneities, so that the intensity of observed pulses fluctuates with time. The theory relating the observed pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Boldyrev , Carl R. Gwinn

We study the properties of the diffuse X-ray background by using the results of a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of the concordance LambdaCDM model. The simulation follows gravitational and gas dynamics and includes a treatment of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Roncarelli , L. Moscardini , P. Tozzi , S. Borgani , L. M. Cheng , A. Diaferio , K. Dolag , G. Murante

We investigated the interstellar medium (ISM) properties in the central regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies characterised by prominent conical or bi-conical outflows belonging to the MAGNUM survey by exploiting the unprecedented sensitivity,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 M. Mingozzi , G. Cresci , G. Venturi , A. Marconi , F. Mannucci

Observations have suggested substantial departures from pressure equilibrium in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the plane of the Galaxy, even on scales under 50 pc. Nevertheless, multi-phase models of the ISM assume at least locally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Jongsoo Kim , Miguel A. Avillez

This review summarizes our current understanding of the outer heliosphere and local interstellar medium (LISM) inferred from observations and modeling of interplanetary Lyman-$\alpha$ emission. The emission is produced by solar Lyman-alpha…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-03 I. Baliukin , J. L. Bertaux , M. Bzowski , V. Izmodenov , R. Lallement , E. Provornikova , E. Quemerais

The intergalactic medium (IGM) is the dominant reservoir of baryons at all cosmic epochs. We investigate the evolution of the IGM from z=2-0 in 48 Mpc/h, 110-million particle cosmological hydrodynamic simulations using three prescriptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Neal Katz , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

We use newly developed 3D kinetic MHD models of the heliosphere to predict heliospheric H I Lyman-alpha absorption for various lines of sight. These predictions are compared with actual Lyman-alpha spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Brian E. Wood , Vladislav V. Izmodenov , Jeffrey L. Linsky , Dmitry Alexashov

We present a detailed study of the hydrogen density distribution in the local interstellar medium (ISM) using the X-ray absorption technique. Hydrogen column densities were precisely measured by fitting X-ray spectra from coronal sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-28 E. Gatuzz , J. Wilms , A. Zainab , S. Freund , P. C. Schneider , J. Robrade , S. Czesla , J. A. García , T. R. Kallmanınst

The interstellar medium (ISM) of our Galaxy is magnetized, compressible and turbulent, influencing many key ISM properties, like star formation, cosmic ray transport, and metal and phase mixing. Yet, basic statistics describing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-15 James R. Beattie , Christoph Federrath , Ralf S. Klessen , Salvatore Cielo , Amitava Bhattacharjee

The temporal smearing of impulsive radio events at cosmological redshifts probes the properties of the ionized Inter-Galactic Medium (IGM). We relate the degree of temporal smearing and the profile of a scattered source to the evolution of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Jun-Yi Koay

Following from our recent work, we present a detailed analysis of star-formation and interstellar medium (ISM) scaling relations, done on a representative sample of nearby galaxies. H$\alpha$ images are analysed in order to derive the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-12 Bogdan A. Pastrav

The distribution of diffuse gas in the intergalactic medium (IGM) imprints a series of hydrogen absorption lines on the spectra of distant background quasars known as the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest. Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 Alberto Rorai , Joseph F. Hennawi , Jose Oñorbe , Martin White , J. Xavier Prochaska , Girish Kulkarni , Michael Walther , Zarija Lukić , Khee-Gan Lee

We present a new flexible Bayesian framework for directly inferring the fraction of neutral hydrogen in the intergalactic medium (IGM) during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, z~6-10) from detections and non-detections of Lyman Alpha…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Charlotte A. Mason , Tommaso Treu , Mark Dijkstra , Andrei Mesinger , Michele Trenti , Laura Pentericci , Stephane de Barros , Eros Vanzella

Faraday tomography of radio polarimetric data below 200 MHz from LOFAR are providing us with a new perspective on the diffuse and magnetized interstellar medium (ISM). Of particular interest is the discovery of Faraday-rotated synchrotron…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-13 A. Bracco , E. Ntormousi , V. Jelić , M. Padovani , B. Šiljeg , A. Erceg , L. Turić , L. Ceraj , I. Šnidarić

We examine observational characteristics of multi-phase turbulent flows in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) using a synthetic radiation field of atomic and molecular lines. We consider the multi-phase ISM which is formed by thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Yamada , H. Koyama , K. Omukai , S. Inutsuka

JWST spectra revealing Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) absorption in $z\sim 5-14$ galaxies offer a unique probe of reionization's earliest stages. However, disentangling absorption by the increasingly neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) from…

Interstellar (ISM) and circumgalactic mediums (CGM) around galaxies are linked to several physical processes that drive galaxy evolution. For example, the X-ray emission from the CGM gas around ellipticals has been linked to the AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Aditi Vijayan , Bocheng Zhu , Miao Li , Feng Yuan , Luis C. Ho

The large cross-section of the Lyman alpha (Lya) line makes it a sensitive probe of the ionization state of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Here we present the most complete study to date of the IGM Lya opacity, and its application to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrei Mesinger , Aycin Aykutalp , Eros Vanzella , Laura Pentericci , Andrea Ferrara , Mark Dijkstra