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Unraveling the multi-phase structure of the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM) as traced by neutral hydrogen (HI) is essential to understanding the lifecycle of the Milky Way. However, HI phase separation is a challenging and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Minjie Lei , S. E. Clark , Rudy Morel , E. Allys , Iryna S. Butsky , Caleb Redshaw , Drummond B. Fielding

We carried out synthetic observations of interstellar atomic hydrogen at 21cm wavelength by utilizing the magneto-hydrodynamical numerical simulations of the inhomogeneous turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) Inoue and Inutsuka (2012). The…

Resolving the phase structure of neutral hydrogen (HI) is crucial for understanding the life cycle of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, accurate measurements of HI temperature and density are limited by the availability of background…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Claire E. Murray , J. E. G. Peek , Chang-Goo Kim

Context. A large fraction of the interstellar medium can be characterized as a multiphase medium. The neutral hydrogen gas is bistable with a cold and warm neutral medium (CNM and WNM respectively) but there is evidence for an additional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 P. M. W. Kalberla , U. Haud

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…

Physical properties of the tiny scale structures in the cold neutral medium (CNM) of galaxies is a long-standing puzzle. Only a few lines of sights in our Galaxy have been studies with mixed results on the scale-invariant properties of such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 P. K. Vishwakarma , P. Dutta

Faraday tomography of polarimetric observations at low frequency is a unique tool to study the structure of the magneto-ionic interstellar medium (ISM) based on Faraday depth. LOFAR data below 200 MHz revealed a plethora of features in…

The cold neutral medium (CNM) is where neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) is converted into molecular clouds, so the structure and kinematics of the CNM are key drivers of galaxy evolution. Here we provide new constraints on the vertical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 Daniel R. Rybarczyk , Trey V. Wenger , Snezana Stanimirović

Filamentary structures in neutral hydrogen (HI) emission are well aligned with the interstellar magnetic field, so HI emission morphology can be used to construct templates that strongly correlate with measurements of polarized thermal dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 George Halal , Susan E. Clark , Ari Cukierman , Dominic Beck , Chao-Lin Kuo

Observations of intergalactic neutral hydrogen can provide a wealth of information about structure and galaxy formation, potentially tracing accretion and feedback processes on Mpc scales. Below a column density of NHI ~ 10^19 cm-2, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Attila Popping , Romeel Dave , Robert Braun , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

We use the Gaussian-fit results of Paper I to investigate the properties of interstellar HI in the Solar neighborhood. The Warm and Cold Neutral Media (WNM and CNM) are physically distinct components. The CNM spin temperature histogram…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Carl Heiles , T. H. Troland

We investigate the atomic-to-molecular gas transition in the molecular formation cloud HLCG 92-35. Using the ROHSA algorithm to decompose GALFA-H I data, we find the Lukewarm Neutral Medium (LNM) to be the dominant mass component,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Yamato Matsuzuki , Hiroaki Yamamoto , Kengo Tachihara

JWST spectra revealing Lyman-$\alpha$ (Ly$\alpha$) absorption in $z\sim 5-14$ galaxies offer a unique probe of reionization's earliest stages. However, disentangling absorption by the increasingly neutral intergalactic medium (IGM) from…

The 21 cm hyperfine transition of the atomic hydrogen (HI) in ground state is a powerful probe of the neutral gas content of the universe. This radio frequency transition has been used routinely for decades to observe, both in emission and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-26 Preetha Saha , Nirupam Roy , Mukul Bhattacharya

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

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

The main goal of this analysis is to present a new method to estimate the physical properties of diffuse cloud of atomic hydrogen observed at high Galactic latitude. This method, based on a comparison of the observations with fractional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes , Peter G. Martin

The spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (H I) emission is a powerful probe of interstellar medium physics. The small-scale structure in H I channel maps is often assumed to probe the velocity field rather than real density structures.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 J. E. G. Peek , S. E. Clark

Atomic hydrogen (HI) dominates the mass of the cold interstellar medium, undergoing thermal condensation to form molecular gas and fuel star formation. Kinematically colder HI components, identified via kinematic decomposition of HI 21 cm…

The neutral hydrogen (Hi) 21-cm line serves as a powerful tracer of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM). Thermal stability analysis suggests that the neutral ISM is bistable in nature, consisting of the cold neutral medium (CNM) embedded…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Atanu Koley
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