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The first observations of deuterium and oxygen in the Local Interstellar Medium (LISM) obtained with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) can be used to search for local abundance variations. While the very limited sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gary Steigman

An accurate estimate of the interstellar gas density distribution is crucial to understanding the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs). To comprehend the ISM and CRs in a local environment, a study of the diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 T. Mizuno , S. Abdollahi , Y. Fukui , K. Hayashi , T. Koyama , A. Okumura , H. Tajima , H. Yamamoto

The Very Local Interstellar Medium (VLISM) contains clouds which consist of partially-ionized plasma. These clouds can be effectively diagnosed via high resolution optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy of the absorption lines they form in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Steven R. Spangler , Allison H. Savage , Seth Redfield

We present new high resolution (R>50,000) absorption measurements of the NaI doublet (5889 - 5895A) along 482 nearby sight-lines, in addition to 807 new measurements of the CaII K (3933A) absorption line. We have combined these new data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Barry Y. Welsh , Rosine Lallement , Jean-Luc Vergely , Severine Raimond

A study of the interstellar medium (ISM) and cosmic rays (CRs) using Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data, in a region encompassing the nearby molecular clouds MBM 53, 54, and 55 and a far-infrared loop-like structure in Pegasus, is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-28 T. Mizuno , S. Abdollahi , Y. Fukui , K. Hayashi , A. Okumura , H. Tajima , H. Yamamoto

We present results of a blind search for Galactic HI 21-cm absorption lines toward 19130 radio sources, using 390 pointings of MALS, each pointing centered on a source brighter than 200 mJy. We detected 3640 HI absorption features. This…

This is the first in a series of three papers describing a project with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope to measure abundances of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) in a sample of 9 nearby star-forming…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Bethan L. James , Alessandra Aloisi , Timothy M. Heckman , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Michael A. Wolfe

The `Local Volume HI Survey' (LVHIS) comprises deep HI spectral line and 20-cm radio continuum observations of 82 nearby, gas-rich galaxies, supplemented by multi-wavelength images. Our sample consists of all galaxies with Local Group…

We present high S/N measurements of the H I Ly alpha absorption line toward 16 Galactic targets which are at distances between approximately 190 and 2200 pc, all beyond the wall of the Local Bubble. We describe the models used to remove…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 S. D. Friedman , P. Chayer , E. B. Jenkins , T. M. Tripp , G. M. Williger , G. Hebrard , P. Sonnentrucker

We present the Deciphering the Interplay between the Interstellar medium, Stars, and the Circumgalactic medium (DIISC) Survey. This survey is designed to investigate the correlations in properties between the circumgalactic medium (CGM),…

We have used integral field echelle spectroscopy with the DensePak fiber-optic array on the KPNO WIYN telescope to observe the central 27" x 43" of the globular cluster M92 in the Na I D wavelength region at a spatial resolution of 4". Two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sean M. Andrews , David M. Meyer , J. T. Lauroesch

The circumstellar environment of the AGB star L$_{\rm 2}$ Puppis was observed with ALMA in cycle 3, with a resolution of $15 \times 18 \rm\ mas$. The molecular emission shows a differentially rotating disk, inclined to a nearly edge-on…

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We present a systematic study of the multi-phase interstellar gas in the Inner Galaxy using HST/STIS absorption spectroscopy of 16 massive stars located at spectroscopic distances between 1.3 and 10 kpc in the region $-30^\circ\lesssim l…

We present Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of the molecular, neutral atomic, weakly ionized, and highly ionized components of the interstellar and intergalactic material toward the quasar 3C 273. We identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. R. Sembach , J. C. Howk , B. D. Savage , J. M. Shull , W. R. Oegerle

We study the $z\approx3.5$ intergalactic medium (IGM) by comparing new, high-quality absorption spectra of eight QSOs with $\langle z_{\rm QSO} \rangle=3.75$, to virtual observations of the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamical simulations. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-25 Monica L. Turner , Joop Schaye , Robert A. Crain , Tom Theuns , Martin Wendt

Spectra from the Keck HIRES instrument of the Lyman alpha forests in the lines of sight to the A and C components of the gravitationally lensed QSO Q1422+231 were used to investigate the structure of the intergalactic medium at mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michael Rauch , Wallace L. W. Sargent , Thomas A. Barlow , Robert F. Carswell

We present the panchromatic spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the Local Volume Legacy (LVL) survey which consists of 258 nearby galaxies ($D<$11 Mpc). The wavelength coverage spans the ultraviolet to the infrared (1500 $\textrm{\AA}$…

In studying the interstellar medium (ISM) and Galactic cosmic rays (CRs), uncertainty of the interstellar gas density has always been an issue. To overcome this difficulty, we used a component decomposition of the 21-cm HI line emission and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 T. Mizuno , K. Hayashi , J. Metzger , I. V. Moskalenko , E. Orlando , A. W. Strong , H. Yamamoto