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The energy and momentum feedback from young stars has a profound impact on the interstellar medium (ISM), including heating and driving turbulence in the neutral gas that fuels future star formation. Recent theory has argued that this leads…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Chang-Goo Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , Woong-Tae Kim

Substructure in the interstellar medium (ISM) is crucial for establishing the correlation between star formation and feedback and has the capacity to significantly perturb stellar orbits, thus playing a central role in galaxy dynamics and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Shaunak Modak , Eve C. Ostriker , Chris Hamilton , Scott Tremaine

The isotropic diffuse $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB) has been detected by various experiments and recently the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has precisely measured its spectrum in a wide energy range. The origin of the IGRB is still unclear and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Mattia Di Mauro

The modeling of galaxy formation and reionization, two central issues of modern cosmology, relies on the accurate follow-up of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Unfortunately, owing to the complex nature of this medium, the differential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alberto Manrique , Eduard Salvador-Solé

A new analysis of elastic properties of dense hard sphere (HS) fluids is presented, based on the expressions derived by Miller [J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 50}, 2733 (1969)]. Important consequences for HS fluids in terms of sound waves propagation,…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-02 Sergey Khrapak

Observations of intergalactic neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about structure and galaxy formation, potentially tracing accretion and feedback processes on Mpc scales. Below a column density of NHI ~ 10^19 cm-2, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Attila Popping , Romeel Dave , Robert Braun , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

Observations of far-infrared (FIR) and submillimeter (SMM) polarized emission are used to study magnetic fields and dust grains in dense regions of the interstellar medium (ISM). These observations place constraints on models of molecular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-19 John E. Vaillancourt

Optical fibres constitute an exceptional sensing platform. However, standard fibres present an inherent sensing challenge: they confine light by design to an inner core. Consequently, nearly all distributed fibre sensors are restricted to…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-21 Gil Bashan , Hilel Hagai Diamandi , Yosef London , Eyal Preter , Avi Zadok

In a previous paper, we calculated numerical hydrodynamic models of the interstellar medium in the Galaxy, which suggested that hot gas (T $\ge$ 3 $\times$ 10$^5$ K) has a filling factor near 50\% in the midplane (Rosen \& Bregman 1995, ApJ…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Alexander Rosen , Joel N. Bregman , Daniel D. Kelson

Atomic fine structure lines have been detected in the local Universe and at high redshifts over the past decades. The [C II] emission line at 158 $\mu$m is an important observable as it provides constraints on the interstellar medium (ISM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Andrés Felipe Ramos Padilla , Lingyu Wang , Sylvia Ploeckinger , F. F. S. van der Tak , Scott Trager

Upcoming high spectral resolution telescopes, particularly Astro-H, are expected to finally deliver firm quantitative constraints on turbulence in the intra-cluster medium (ICM). We develop a new spectral analysis technique which exploits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Cien Shang , S. Peng Oh

Recent advances in understanding of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence call for substantial revisions in the picture of cosmic ray transport. In this paper we use recently obtained scaling laws for MHD modes to calculate the scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

The paper demonstrates the possibility to use ANSYS HFSS as a versatile simulating tool for antennas facing inhomogeneous anisotropic magnetized plasmas in the Ion Cyclotron Range of Frequencies (ICRF). The methodology used throughout the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 V. Maquet , R. Ragona , D. Van Eester , J. Hillairet , F. Durodie

We study the properties of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $z<1$ galaxies by correlating Faraday rotation measures of $\sim 1,000$ high-redshift radio sources with the foreground galaxy number density estimated from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-24 Ting-Wen Lan , J. Xavier Prochaska

We present a study exploring the nature and properties of the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM) and its connection to the atomic gas content in the interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies as traced by the HI 21cm line. Our sample includes 45 low-z…

Radiative transfer equilibrium models of nearby interstellar matter (ISM) yield the boundary conditions of the heliosphere when constrained with observations of ISM inside and outside of the heliosphere. Filtration factors for interstellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Priscilla C. Frisch

The sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal is a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the completion of reionization. However, it has so far been unclear that even in the best case scenario, in which the signal is accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jordan Mirocha , Geraint J. A. Harker , Jack O. Burns

The understanding of inertial-scale dynamics in the heliosheath is not yet thorough. Magnetic field fluctuations across the inner heliosheath (IHS) and the local interstellar medium (LISM) are here considered to provide accurate and highly…

The linearized problem of plasma oscillations in layer (particularly, in thin films) in external longitudinal alternating electric field is solved analytically. Specular - accommodative boundary conditions of electron reflection from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

The filamentary network of intergalactic medium (IGM) gas that gives origin to the Lyman-alpha forest in the spectra of distant quasars encodes information on the physics of structure formation and the early thermodynamics of diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Bruno Villasenor , Brant Robertson , Piero Madau , Evan Schneider