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The origin of warm ions in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) surrounding massive galaxies remains a mystery. In this paper, we argue that a significant fraction of the observed warm-ion columns may arise in the intergalactic medium (IGM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Itai Bromberg , Kartick C. Sarkar , Orly Gnat , Yuval Brinboim

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

The physical properties of Milky Way Mgii-bearing gas remain poorly constrained due to the saturation of the near-UV doublet. We utilize the weaker Mgii $\lambda\lambda$1239, 1240 doublet from 482 archival HST/COS extragalactic sightlines…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Xiaochuan Jiang , Taotao Fang , Shulan Yan

We report high spectral resolution Australia Telescope Compact Array HI 21 cm observations resulting in the detection of the warm neutral medium (WNM) of the Galaxy in absorption against two extragalactic radio sources, PKS 1814-637 and PKS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nissim Kanekar , Ravi Subrahmanyan , Jayaram N. Chengalur , Vicky Safouris

This work is the continuation of a series attempting to characterize the local warm ionized medium through both static and time dependent simulations. We build upon our three dimensional, observationally-derived simulation of the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Lewis McCallum , Kenneth Wood , Robert Benjamin , Dhanesh Krishnarao , Anna F. McLeod

Our study focuses on characterizing the highly ionized gas within the Milky Way's (MW) Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) that gives rise to ionic transitions in the X-ray band 2 - 25 \AA. Utilizing stacked \Chandra/\ACISS\ \MEG\ and \LETG\…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-25 Armando Lara-DI , Yair Krongold , Smita Mathur , Sanskriti Das , Anjali Gupta , O. Segura Montero

Most of cosmic baryons predicted by the big-bang nucleosynthesis has evaded the direct detection. Recent numerical simulations indicate that approximately 30 to 50 percent of the total baryons in the present universe is supposed to take a…

We study the temperature structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using a large cosmological N-body/SPH simulation. We employ a two-temperature model for the thermal evolution of the ionized gas, in which the relaxation process between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Naoki Yoshida , Steven Furlanetto , Lars Hernquist

Results are presented for our search for warm-hot gas towards the quasar Q 0329-385. We identify ten OVI systems of which two are within 5000 km/s of z_em and a third one should be of intrinsic origin. The seven remaining systems have HI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jacqueline Bergeron , Bastien Aracil , Patrick Petitjean , Christophe Pichon

The interstellar medium (ISM) has a multiphase structure characterized by gas, dust and molecules. The gas can be found in different charge states: neutral, low-ionized (warm) and high-ionized (hot). It is possible to probe the multiphase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-19 C. Pinto , J. S. Kaastra , E. Costantini , F. Verbunt

We present mid-infrared imaging and far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopy of 5 IBm galaxies observed by ISO as part of our larger study of the inter- stellar medium of galaxies. Most of the irregulars in our sample are very actively forming…

The Diffuse Ionised Gas (DIG) in galaxies traces photoionisation feedback from massive stars. Through three dimensional photoionisation simulations, we study the propagation of ionising photons, photoionisation heating and the resulting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 J. E. Barnes , Kenneth Wood , Alex S. Hill , L. M. Haffner

We have developed a new X-ray absorption model, called {\tt IONeq}, which computes the optical depth $\tau(E)$ simultaneously for ions of all abundant elements, assuming ionization equilibrium and taking into account turbulent broadening.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Efrain Gatuzz , Eugene Churazov

High ionisation lines in the soft X-ray band are generally associated to either interstellar hot gas along the line of sight or to photoionised gas intrinsic to the source. In the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1820-30, the nature of these lines…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-20 Daniele Rogantini , Elisa Costantini , Missagh Mehdipour , Lucien Kuiper , Piero Ranalli , Rens Waters

We present the first localized detections of the cold neutral medium (CNM) in IC10, offering a rare view of dense atomic gas in a low-metallicity (0.27 solar metallicity) dwarf galaxy. As a low-metallicity starburst, IC10's interstellar…

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

The hot interstellar medium traces the stellar feedback and its role in regulating the eco-system of the Galaxy. I review recent progress in understanding the medium, based largely on X-ray absorption line spectroscopy, complemented by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-12 Q. Daniel Wang

A detailed analysis on the physical conditions of the Interstellar Medium in the main body of the Local Group dwarf irregular galaxy IC 10 is carried out using long-slit spectroscopy. Maps of the excitation, the H$\alpha$ flux,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. M. Hidalgo-Gamez

We present a method for deriving the electron density of ionized gas using the ratio of the intensity of the [NII] 205um line to that of Hydrogen radio recombination lines (RRL). We use this method to derive electron densities of 21…

We present JWST/MIRI spectra from the Medium-Resolution Spectrometer of IZw18, a nearby dwarf galaxy with a metallicity of $\sim 3$% Solar. Here, we investigate warm molecular hydrogen, H2, observed in spectra extracted in $\sim 120$ pc…

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