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We derive distributions of dust temperature and dust opacity across M31 at 45" resolution using the Spitzer data. With the opacity map and a standard dust model we de-redden the Ha emission yielding the first de-reddened Ha map of M31. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 F. S. Tabatabaei , E. M. Berkhuijsen

We present the surface brightness profile of M31's stellar halo out to a projected radius of 175 kpc. The surface brightness estimates are based on confirmed samples of M31 red giant branch stars derived from Keck/DEIMOS spectroscopic…

We assess the possibility to detect the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) in emission and to characterize its physical conditions and spatial distribution through spatially resolved X-ray spectroscopy, in the framework of the recently…

We present measurements of the Galactic halo's X-ray emission for 110 XMM-Newton sight lines, selected to minimize contamination from solar wind charge exchange emission. We detect emission from few million degree gas on ~4/5 of our sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 David B. Henley , Robin L. Shelton

In the disks of spiral galaxies, diffuse soft X-ray emission is known to be strongly correlated with star-forming regions. However, this emission is not simply from a thermal-equilibrium plasma and its origin remains greatly unclear. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-22 Shuinai Zhang , Q. Daniel Wang , Wei Sun , Min Long , Jia Sun , Li Ji

Aims: We use new deep XMM-Newton observations of the northern disk of M 31 to trace the hot interstellar medium (ISM) in unprecedented detail and to characterise the physical properties of the X-ray emitting plasmas. Methods: We used all…

The hot, X-ray-emitting phase of the circumgalactic medium of massive galaxies is believed to be the reservoir of baryons from which gas flows onto the central galaxy and into which feedback from AGN and stars inject mass, momentum, energy,…

The dispersion measures (DMs) of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a valuable tool for probing the baryonic content of the intergalactic and the circumgalactic medium of the intervening galaxies along the sightlines. However, interpreting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-26 Jiale Wang , Zheng Zhou , Xiaochuan Jiang , Taotao Fang

Emission lines from metals offer one of the most promising ways to detect the elusive warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM; 10^5 K<T<10^7 K), which is thought to contain a substantial fraction of the baryons in the low-redshift Universe. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Serena Bertone , Joop Schaye , Claudio Dalla Vecchia , C. M. Booth , Tom Theuns , Robert P. C. Wiersma

Observations of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the local universe can account for only $\sim\,10\%$ of the total baryon content. Cosmological simulations predict that the `missing baryons' are spread throughout filamentary structures in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Anna de Graaff , Yan-Chuan Cai , Catherine Heymans , John A. Peacock

We test the X-ray emission predictions of galactic fountain models against XMM-Newton measurements of the emission from the Milky Way's hot halo. These measurements are from 110 sight lines, spanning the full range of Galactic longitudes.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 David B. Henley , Robin L. Shelton , Kyujin Kwak , Alex S. Hill , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

Using the Expanded Very Large Array, we have mapped the vicinity of the Orion BN/KL Hot Core with sub-arcsecond angular resolution in seven metastable inversion transitions of ammonia: (J,K)=(6,6) to (12,12). This emission comes from levels…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Goddi , L. J. Greenhill , E. M. L. Humphreys , C. J. Chandler , L. D. Matthews

Gamma-ray haloes can exist around galaxies due to the interaction of escaping galactic cosmic rays with the surrounding gas. We have searched for such a halo around the nearby giant spiral Andromeda galaxy M31 using almost 7 years of Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-24 M. S. Pshirkov , V. V. Vasiliev , K. A. Postnov

A grand rotation curve of the Milky Way Galaxy is constructed, which covers a wide range of radius from the Galactic Center to ~1 Mpc, and is deconvolved into bulge, disk and halo components by least-squares fitting. We determined the scale…

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The inner 300-500 pc of the Milky Way has some of the most extreme gas conditions in our Galaxy. Physical properties of the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), including temperature, density, thermal pressure, and turbulent pressure, are key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-21 Tierra M. Candelaria , E. A. C Mills , David S. Meier , Juergen Ott , Natalie Butterfield

We investigate the properties of halo gas using three cosmological `zoom-in' simulations of realistic Milky Way-galaxy analogs with varying sub-grid physics. In all three cases, the mass of hot ($T > 10^6$ K) halo gas is $\sim 1\%$ of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Aleksandra Sokołowska , Lucio Mayer , Arif Babul , Piero Madau , Sijing Shen

This paper presents the multi-scale temperature structures in the Milky Way (MW) hot gas, as part of the XMM-Newton Line Emission Analysis Program (X-LEAP), surveying the O VII, O VIII, and Fe-L band emission features in the XMM-Newton…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-12 Zhijie Qu , Zeyang Pan , Joel N. Bregman , Jifeng Liu

The fraction of ionized gas in the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium induces temperature anisotropies on the Cosmic Microwave Background similar to those of clusters of galaxies. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich anisotropies due to these low density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ricardo Genova-Santos , Isabel Suarez-Velasquez , Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Jan Muecket

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…

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