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Recent targeted studies of associated HI absorption in radio galaxies are starting to map out the location, and potential cosmological evolution, of the cold gas in the host galaxies of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). The observed 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. R. Allison , E. M. Sadler , S. J. Curran , S. N. Reeves

We investigate the physical properties of structures seen in channel map observations of 21-cm neutral hydrogen (HI) emission. HI intensity maps display prominent linear structures that are well aligned with the ambient magnetic field in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-11 S. E. Clark , J. E. G. Peek , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes

We study the column densities of neutral atomic, molecular, and warm ionized Galactic gas through their continuous absorption of extragalactic X-ray spectra at |b| > 25 degrees. For N(H,21cm) < 5x10^20 cm^-2 there is an extremely tight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 John S. Arabadjis , Joel N. Bregman

This paper is a numerical study of the condensation of the warm neutral medium (WNM) into cold neutral medium (CNM) structures under the effect of turbulence and thermal instability. Using low resolution simulations we explored the impact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-09 E. Saury , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , P. Hennebelle , E. Audit , W. Schmidt

Ices imprint strong absorption features in the near- and mid-infrared, but until recently they have been studied almost exclusively with spectroscopy toward small samples of bright sources. We show that JWST photometry alone can reveal and…

The transition from the diffuse warm neutral medium (WNM) to the dense cold neutral medium (CNM) is what set the initial conditions to the formation of molecular clouds. The properties of the turbulent cascade in the WNM, essential to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Antoine Marchal , Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes

A population of discrete HI clouds in the halo of the inner Galaxy has been discovered in 21cm observations made with the Green Bank Telescope. The halo clouds are seen up to 1.5 kpc from the Galactic plane at many longitudes. Their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman

Unlike the neutral gas density, which remains largely constant over redshifts of 0 < z < 5, the star formation density exhibits a strong redshift dependence, increasing from the present day before peaking at a redshift of z ~ 2.5. Thus,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 S. J. Curran

We find that clouds of optically-thin, pressure-confined gas are prone to fragmentation as they cool below $\sim10^6$ K. This fragmentation follows the lengthscale $\sim{c}_{\text{s}}\,t_{\text{cool}}$, ultimately reaching very small scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-10 Michael McCourt , S. Peng Oh , Ryan M. O'Leary , Ann-Marie Madigan

We develop a new method to constrain the physical conditions in the cool (~10^4 K) circumgalactic medium (CGM) from measurements of ionic column densities, by assuming that the cool CGM spans a large range of gas densities and that small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Jonathan Stern , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jessica K. Werk

We present a comprehensive survey of CII* absorption detections toward stars within 100 pc in order to measure the distribution of electron densities present in the local interstellar medium (LISM). Using high spectral resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Seth Redfield , Ross E. Falcon

We aim at analysing systematically the distribution and physical properties of neutral and mildly ionised gas in the Milky Way halo, based on a large absorption-selected data set. Multi-wavelength studies were performed combining optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Ben Bekhti , B. Winkel , P. Richter , J. Kerp , U. Klein , M. T. Murphy

We present high S/N measurements of the H I Ly alpha absorption line toward 16 Galactic targets which are at distances between approximately 190 and 2200 pc, all beyond the wall of the Local Bubble. We describe the models used to remove…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 S. D. Friedman , P. Chayer , E. B. Jenkins , T. M. Tripp , G. M. Williger , G. Hebrard , P. Sonnentrucker

Stars form in the dense interiors of molecular clouds. The dynamics and physical properties of the atomic interstellar medium (ISM) set the conditions under which molecular clouds and eventually stars will form. It is, therefore, critical…

We have developed a complete model of the hydrogen molecule as part of the spectral simulation code Cloudy. Our goal is to apply this to spectra of high-redshift star-forming regions where H2 absorption is seen, but where few other details…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gargi Shaw , G. J. Ferland , R. Srianand , N. P. Abel

We present the first results from the Small Magellanic Cloud portion of a new Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) HI absorption survey of both of the Magellanic Clouds, comprising over 800 hours of observations. Our new HI absorption…

Many recent models consider the structure of individual interstellar medium (ISM) clouds as a way to explain observations of large parts of galaxies. To compare such models to observations, one must understand how to translate between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Adam K. Leroy , Cheoljong Lee , Andreas Schruba , Alberto Bolatto , Annie Hughes , Jerome Pety , Karin Sandstrom , Eva Schinnerer , Fabian Walter

We develop a semi-analytic model to explore the physical properties of cool pressure-confined circumgalactic clouds with mass ranging from $10$ to $10^{8} \, \rm M_{\odot}$ in a hot diffuse halo. We consider physical effects that control…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-10 Ting-Wen Lan , Houjun Mo

We present the largest Galactic neutral hydrogen HI absorption survey to date, utilizing the Australian SKA Pathfinder Telescope at an unprecedented spatial resolution of 30''. This survey, GASKAP-HI, unbiasedly targets 2,714 continuum…

Context. In order to understand the evolution of molecular clouds it is important to identify the departures from self-similarity associated with the scales of self-gravity and the driving of turbulence. Aims. A method is described based on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Gustafsson , J. L. Lemaire , D. Field