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We present 3D radiation-gasdynamical simulations of an ionization front running into a dense clump. In our setup, a B0 star irradiates an overdensity which is at a distance of 10 pc and modelled as a supercritical 100 M_sol Bonnor-Ebert…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-17 Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Ralf S. Klessen

A simple analytical model is used to calculate the X-ray heating of the IGM for a range of black hole masses. This process is efficient enough to decouple the spin temperature of the intergalactic medium from the cosmic microwave background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Saleem Zaroubi , Rajat M. Thomas , Naoshi Sugiyama , Joe Silk

Using high-resolution, three-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations, we investigate the structure of the interstellar medium in the central hundred pc region in galaxies, taking into account self-gravity of the gas, radiative cooling from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiichi Wada

TeV-blazars potentially heat the intergalactic medium (IGM) as their gamma rays interact with photons of the extragalactic background light to produce electron-positron pairs, which lose their kinetic energy to the surrounding medium…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Astrid Lamberts , Philip Chang , Christoph Pfrommer , Ewald Puchwein , Avery E. Broderick , Mohamad Shalaby

Measurements of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (hereafter SZ) effect distortion of the cosmic microwave background provide us with an independent method to derive the gas temperature of galaxy clusters. In merging galaxy clusters the gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. A. Prokhorov , Y. Dubois , S. Nagataki

We use new studies of the cosmic evolution of star-forming galaxies to estimate the production rate of ionizing photons from hot, massive stars at low and intermediate redshifts. The luminosity function of blue galaxies in the Canada-France…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Giallongo , A. Fontana , P. Madau

The temperature of the intergalactic medium (IGM) is set by the competition between photoheating and adiabatic cooling, which are usually assumed to define a tight equation of state in which the temperature increases monotonically with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven Furlanetto , S. Peng Oh

We investigate the properties of the hot gas in four fossil galaxy systems detected at high significance in the Planck Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) survey. XMM-Newton observations reveal overall temperatures of kT ~ 5-6 keV and yield hydrostatic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-18 G. W. Pratt , E. Pointecouteau , M. Arnaud , R. F. J. van der Burg

We propose a new method to probe the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) beyond the virial radius (R_200) of a cluster of galaxies, where X-ray observations are not easily achievable. In this method, we use dispersion measures (DMs) of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Yutaka Fujita , Takuya Akahori , Keiichi Umetsu , Craig L. Sarazin , Ka-Wah Wong

The star formation rate in galaxies should be related to the fraction of gas that can attain densities large enough for gravitational collapse. In galaxies with a turbulent interstellar medium, this fraction is controlled by the effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Scalo , Anirban Biswas

We use the Zel'dovich approximation and another analytical approximation to calculate the evolution under gravitational instability of the underdense regions of a photoionized intergalactic medium (IGM). We find that over most of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Andreas Reisenegger , Jordi Miralda-Escude

We present the KODIAQ-Z survey aimed to characterize the cool, photoionized gas at 2.2<z<3.6 in 202 HI-selected absorbers with 14.6<log N(HI)<20, i.e., the gaseous interface between galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM). We find that…

Mounting evidence from $x$-ray observations reveals that bound objects should receive some form of energy in the past injected from non-gravitaional sources. We report that an instantaneous heating scheme, for which gases in dense regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kai-Yang Lin , Lihwai Lin , Tak-Pong Woo , Yao-Huan Tseng , Tzihong Chiueh

Both simulations and observations indicate that the so-called missing baryons reside in the intergalactic medium known as the warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). In this study we employed the IllustrisTNG50-1 simulation to demonstrate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Yun Wang , Minxing Li , Ping He

In this paper, we try to detect the SZ effect in the 2MASS DWT clusters and less bound objects in order to constrain the warm-hot intergalactic medium distribution on large scales by cross-correlation analysis. The results of both observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Liang Cao , Wei Zuo , Yao-Quan Chu

Galaxy clusters are the most massive gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, comprising thousands of galaxies and pervaded by a diffuse, hot ``intracluster medium'' (ICM) that dominates the baryonic content of these systems. The…

We summarise observations and our current understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies, which mainly consists of three phases: cold atomic or molecular gas and clouds, warm neutral or ionised gas, and hot ionised gas. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Manami Sasaki , Gabriele Ponti , Jonathan Mackey

Assuming that there exists a species of heavy sterile neutrinos($m_{\nu}>1$ keV) and their decays can serve as a heating source of the hot gas in galaxy clusters, we study how the observational constraints on cooling flow limit the mass of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 M. H. Chan , M. -C. Chu

We determine the thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) over $3\, \mathrm{Gyr}$ of cosmic time $1.8<z<5.4$ by comparing measurements of the Ly{\alpha} forest power spectrum to a suite of $\sim70$ hydrodynamical simulations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Michael Walther , Jose Oñorbe , Joseph F. Hennawi , Zarija Lukić

We mapped the kinetic temperature structure of Orion KL in a $\sim$20$''$ ($\sim$8000 AU) sized region with para-H$_{2}$CS $7_{07}-6_{06}$, $7_{26}-6_{25}$, and $7_{25}-6_{24}$ making use of ALMA Band 6 Science Verification data. The…