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We present measurements of the H I spin temperatures (T_s) of the Cold Neutral Medium (CNM) towards radio sources that are closely aligned with stars for which published H_2 ortho-para temperatures (T_{01}) are available from UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nirupam Roy , Jayaram N. Chengalur , Raghunathan Srianand

We investigate the 21-cm signature that may arise from the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the epoch of full reionization (z>5). In scenarios in which the IGM is reionized by discrete sources of photoionizing radiation, the neutral gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Piero Madau , Avery Meiksin , Martin J. Rees

Above redshift 6, the dominant source of neutral hydrogen in the Universe shifts from localized clumps in and around galaxies and filaments to a pervasive, diffuse component of the intergalactic medium (IGM). This transition tracks the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-23 Judd D. Bowman , Alan E. E. Rogers , Jacqueline N. Hewitt

The nature of turbulence in the warm ionized component of the interstellar medium (WIM) can be investigated using Fabry-Perot spectroscopy of optical emission lines. The H-alpha intensity provides the emission measure (EM) along a line of…

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

GEMS is an IRAM 30m Large Program whose aim is determining the elemental depletions and the ionization fraction in a set of prototypical star-forming regions. This paper presents the first results from the prototypical dark cloud TMC 1.…

Interstellar medium (ISM) structures gravitationally perturb stellar orbits in galactic disks, driving orbital heating and migration. However, studies of these transport processes tend to model the ISM very crudely, e.g., as a collection of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-22 Shaunak Modak , Chris Hamilton , Eve C. Ostriker , Scott Tremaine

We use high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project to make predictions for the covering fractions of neutral hydrogen around galaxies at z=2-4. These simulations resolve the interstellar medium of galaxies and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , P. F. Hopkins , D. Keres , A. L. Muratov , E. Quataert , N. Murray

Neutral Interstellar Helium (NISHe) is almost unaffected at the heliospheric interface with the interstellar medium and freely enters the solar system. It provides some of the best information on the characteristics of the interstellar gas…

We present an analysis of the molecular and atomic gas emission in the rest-frame far-infrared and sub-millimetre, from the lensed z=2.3 sub-millimetre galaxy SMM J2135-0102. We obtain very high signal-to-noise detections of 11 transitions…

We present a semi-analytic model for the interstellar medium that considers local processes and structures of turbulent star-forming gas. A volume element of the interstellar medium is described as a multiphase system, comprising a cold and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Harald Braun , Wolfram Schmidt

We analyze the properties of the circumgalactic gas (CGM) around 120 galaxies with stellar and dark matter halo masses similar to that of the Milky Way. We focus on the morphology and kinematics of the neutral hydrogen and how this depends…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 Guinevere Kauffmann , Sanchayeeta Borthakur , Dylan Nelson

This paper reports on 3D numerical simulations of dynamics and thermodynamics in the diffuse ISM. Our models are local, account for sheared galactic rotation, magnetic fields, and realistic cooling, and resolve scales ~1-200 pc. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert A. Piontek , Eve C. Ostriker

We have detected HI 21cm line absorption by the Warm Neutral Medium (WNM) using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The absorption was detected toward Cygnus A at LSR velocities of -40 and -70 km s^{-1}. These two velocity ranges were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. L. Carilli , K. S. Dwarakanath , W. M. Goss

We analyzed observations of interstellar neutral helium (ISN~He) obtained from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite during its first six years of operation. We used a refined version of the ISN~He simulation model, presented…

It has been hypothesized that photons from young, massive star clusters are responsible for maintaining the ionization of diffuse warm ionized gas seen in both the Milky Way and other disk galaxies. For a theoretical investigation of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 Erin Kado-Fong , Jeong-Gyu Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , Chang-Goo Kim

Stellar and nebular abundance indicators reveal that there exists significant abundance fluctuations in the interstellar medium (ISM) of gas-rich galaxies. It is shown that at the present observed solar level of O/H $\sim 6 \times 10^{-4}$,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Rene ROY , Daniel KUNTH

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

The intergalactic medium (IGM) plays an important role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. Recent developments in upcoming radio telescopes are starting to open up the possibility of making a first direct detection of the 21 cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Robin Kooistra , Marta B. Silva , Saleem Zaroubi , Marc A. W. Verheijen , Elmo Tempel , Kelley M. Hess

The goal of this science case is to study physical conditions of the interstellar medium (ISM) in distant galaxies. In particular, its densest component is associated with the inner cores of clouds -- this is where star formation takes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-18 R. Decarli , C. Carilli , C. Casey , B. Emonts , J. A. Hodge , K. Kohno , D. Narayanan , D. Riechers , M. T. Sargent , F. Walter

We develop a self-consistent model of turbulence in a local interstellar medium (ISM). The model describes a partially ionized magnetofluid ISM in which a neutral hydrogen fluid interacts with a plasma dominantly through a charge exchange.…

Space Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 Dastgeer Shaikh