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"Diffuse" gamma rays consist of several components: truly diffuse emission from the interstellar medium, the extragalactic background, whose origin is not firmly established yet, and the contribution from unresolved and faint Galactic point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong , O. Reimer

The interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies very often contains a gas component that reaches the temperature of several million degrees, whose physical and chemical properties can be investigated through imaging and spectroscopy in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Emanuele Nardini , Dong-Woo Kim , Silvia Pellegrini

Continuum gamma-ray emission produced by interactions of cosmic rays with interstellar matter and radiation fields is a probe of non-thermal particle populations in galaxies. After decades of continuous improvements in experimental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 Luigi Tibaldo , Daniele Gaggero , Pierrick Martin

Understanding the infrared emission of galaxies is critical to observational and theoretical investigations of the condensation of galaxies out of the intergalactic medium and the conversion of gas into stars over cosmic time. From an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cristina C. Popescu , Richard J. Tuffs

We investigate the geometric distribution of gas metallicities in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around $47$, $z<0.7$ galaxies from the "Multiphase Galaxy Halos" Survey. Using a combination of quasar spectra from HST/COS and from…

Interstellar space is filled with a dilute mixture of charged particles, atoms, molecules and dust grains, called the interstellar medium (ISM). Understanding its physical properties and dynamical behavior is of pivotal importance to many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-18 Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover

In this chapter, we give an overview of the major components of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies at a level appropriate for upper level undergraduates or beginning graduate students. We discuss the major constituents of the the ISM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-14 Adam K. Leroy , Alberto D. Bolatto

Galaxy groups host the majority of matter and more than half of all the galaxies in the Universe. Their hot ($10^7$ K), X-ray emitting intra-group medium (IGrM) reveals emission lines typical of many elements synthesized by stars and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-28 Fabio Gastaldello , Aurora Simionescu , Francois Mernier , Veronica Biffi , Massimo Gaspari , Kosuke Sato , Kyoko Matsushita

We study the internal structure of the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM), using 29 spectra of 13 gravitationally lensed quasars with image separation angles of a few arcseconds, which correspond to 100 pc to 10 kpc in physical distances. After…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Suzuka Koyamada , Toru Misawa , Naohisa Inada , Masamune Oguri , Nobunari Kashikawa , Katsuya Okoshi

(abridged) The far-UV wavelength range (912-2000A) provides access to atomic and molecular transitions of many species the interstellar medium (ISM), circumgalactic medium (CGM), and intergalactic medium, within phases spanning a wide range…

The Intra-Cluster Medium (ICM) is a rarefied, hot, highly ionized, metal rich, weakly magnetized plasma. In these proceeding, after having reviewed some basic ICM properties, I discuss recent results obtained with the BeppoSAX, XMM-Newton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Silvano Molendi

Stars are fossils that retain the history of their host galaxies. Elements heavier than helium are created inside stars and are ejected when they die. From the spatial distribution of elements in galaxies, it is therefore possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-27 Chiaki Kobayashi , Philip Taylor

We use the GIBLE suite of cosmological zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies with additional super-Lagrangian refinement in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) to quantify the origin and evolution of CGM cold gas clouds. The origin of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-25 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson , Drummond Fielding , Marcus Brüggen

We consider the physical conditions of the neutral medium within, and in the environments of, galaxies. The basic physical and morphological properties of the neutral medium within galaxy disks are now quite well-constrained. Systematic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Braun

We review the current knowledge and understanding of the interstellar medium of our galaxy. We first present each of the three basic constituents - ordinary matter, cosmic rays, and magnetic fields - of the interstellar medium, laying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Katia M. Ferriere

This paper presents a systematic study of the photoionization and thermodynamic properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) as traced by rest-frame ultraviolet absorption lines around 26 galaxies at redshift $z\lesssim1$. The study…

Luminous red galaxies (LRGs) are the most massive galaxies at $z\sim 0.5$ and, by selection, have negligible star formation. These objects have halo masses between those of $L_{*}$ galaxies, whose circumgalactic media (CGM) are observed to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Marijana Smailagić , Jason Xavier Prochaska , Joseph Burchett , Guangtun Zhu , Brice Ménard

Based mainly on X-ray observations, studies are made on interactions between the intra-cluster medium (ICM) in clusters of galaxies and their member galaxies. Through (magneto)hydrodynamic and gravitational channels, the moving galaxies are…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is poorly constrained at the sub-parsec scales relevant to turbulent energy dissipation and regulation of multi-phase structure. Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are sensitive to small-scale plasma density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-25 S. K. Ocker , M. Chen , S. P. Oh , P. Sharma

The evolution of galaxies is largely affected by exchanging material with their close environment, the circumgalactic medium (CGM). In this work, we investigate the CGM and the interstellar medium (ISM) of the bright central galaxy (BCG) of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-17 L. Ghodsi , J. Zhou , P. Andreani , C. De Breuck , A. W. S. Man , Y. Miyamoto , T. G. Bisbas , A. Lundgren , Z. -Y. Zhang