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The recent detection with Chandra of two warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM) filaments toward Mrk 421 by Nicastro et al. provides a measurement of the bulk of the "missing baryons" in the nearby universe. Since Mrk 421 is a bright X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rik J. Williams , Smita Mathur , Fabrizio Nicastro , Martin Elvis

In this work, we studied ten nearby ($z$$ \leq$0.038) galaxy clusters to understand possible interactions between hot plasma and member galaxies. A multi-band source detection was applied to detect point-like structures within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-04 Turgay Caglar , Murat Hudaverdi

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) is a new facility dedicated to the study of faint optical emission lines from diffuse interstellar gas. During its first 18 months of operation, WHAM carried out a survey of the interstellar H-alpha…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner , S. L. Tufte

HIFI GOT C+ Galactic plane [CII] spectral survey has detected strong emission at the spiral arm tangencies. We use the unique viewing geometry of the Scutum-Crux (S-C) tangency near i = 30degs to detect the warm ionized medium (WIM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Velusamy , W. D. Langer , J. L. Pineda , P. F. Goldsmith

Observations of the hot X-ray emitting interstellar medium in the Milky Way are important for studying the stellar feedback and understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. We present measurements of the soft X-ray background…

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

We observed several nearby face-on spiral galaxies with the ROSAT PSPC to study their 0.1-2.0 keV diffuse emission. After the exclusion of resolved discrete sources, there is unresolved X-ray emission in all the galaxies observed. Since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Wei Cui , Wilton T. Sanders , Dan McCammon , Steven L. Snowden , Donna S. Womble

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) provides the material needed for galaxy formation and influences galaxy evolution. The hot ($T>10^6K$) CGM is poorly detected around galaxies with stellar masses ($M_*$) lower than $3\times10^{11}M_\odot$ due…

We present a new X-ray analysis mainly based on ROSAT HRI data. The HRI spatial resolution combined with an improved wavelet analysis method and with complementary radio and optical data provides new results compared to a previous paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. B. Lima Neto , V. Pislar , F. Durret , D. Gerbal , E. Slezak

An extremely soft X-ray excess throughout galaxy clusters has been claimed as a new feature of these sytems, with important physical implications. We have reexamined this feature in the five clusters for which it has been discussed, using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 John S. Arabadjis , Joel N. Bregman

We present a detailed analysis of the galaxy and group distributions around three reported X-ray absorption line systems in the spectrum of the quasar H2356-309. Previous studies associated these absorbers with known large-scale galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-14 Rik J. Williams , John S. Mulchaey , Juna A. Kollmeier

We have analyzed the Chandra, BeppoSax, and ROSAT observations of Abell 754 and report evidence of a soft, diffuse X-ray component. The emission is peaked in the cluster center and is detected out to 8' from the X-ray center. Fitting a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark J. Henriksen , Daniel S. Hudson , Eric Tittley

Observations of radio halos and relics in galaxy clusters indicate efficient electron acceleration. Protons should likewise be accelerated, suggesting that clusters may also be sources of very high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray…

The X-ray emission properties from the hot thermalized plasma that results from the collisions of individual stellar winds and supernovae ejecta within rich and compact star clusters are discussed. We propose a simple analytical way of…

We present here a study of XMM-Newton data of two distant galaxy cluster candidates. One of these was discovered serendipitously in near infrared data, CL J0533-2411, the other one corresponds to the cluster EIS J0533-2412 part of the EIS…

The study of galaxy cluster outskirts has emerged as one of the new frontiers in extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology with the advent of new observations in X-ray and microwave. However, the thermodynamic properties and chemical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-24 Camille Avestruz , Erwin T. Lau , Daisuke Nagai , Alexey Vikhlinin

We report on a systematic investigation of the cold and mildly ionized gaseous baryonic metal components of our Galaxy, through the analysis of high resolution Chandra and XMM-Newton spectra of two samples of Galactic and extragalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 F. Nicastro , F. Senatore , A. Gupta , M. Guainazzi , S. Mathur , Y. Krongold , M. Elvis , L. Piro

We present an analysis of the distribution of H-alpha emission measures for the warm ionized medium (WIM) of the Galaxy using data from the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) Northern Sky Survey. Our sample is restricted to Galactic latitudes…

We use cosmological simulations to study the X-ray ionisation and heating of the intergalactic medium by an early population of accreting black holes. By considering observational constraints from the X-ray background, we find an upper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Ricotti , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Analyses of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy clusters suggest that X-ray masses can be underestimated by 10% to 30%. The largest bias originates by both violation of hydrostatic equilibrium and an additional temperature bias…