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A large fraction of the baryon budget at $z<1$ resides in large-scale filaments in the form of diffuse intergalactic gas, and numerous studies have reported a significant correlation between the strength of the absorptions produced by this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Ismael Pessa , Nicolas Tejos , Karen Martinez-Acosta , Sebastian Lopez , Jessica Werk , J. Xavier Prochaska

Results are presented for our search for warm-hot gas towards the quasar Q 0329-385. We identify ten OVI systems of which two are within 5000 km/s of z_em and a third one should be of intrinsic origin. The seven remaining systems have HI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jacqueline Bergeron , Bastien Aracil , Patrick Petitjean , Christophe Pichon

Dwarf galaxies provide a special environment due to their low mass, small size and generally low metal content. These attributes make them perfect laboratories for the interaction of massive stars with the interstellar medium on small and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominik J. Bomans

The diffuse gas in and nearby the Milky Way plays an important role in the evolution of the entire Galaxy. It has a complex structure characterized by neutral, weakly and highly ionized gas, dust, and molecules. We probe this gas through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-19 C. Pinto , G. A. Kriss , J. S. Kaastra , E. Costantini , J. Ebrero , K. C. Steenbrugge , M. Mehdipour , G. Ponti

The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) has shown the complexity of the Galactic center (GC) Interstellar medium (ISM) detecting, not only large column densities of warm molecular gas (H2), but the emission of neutral atoms and ions of low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez , J. Martin-Pintado

In order to study the small-scale structure of the hot interstellar gas, we obtained Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer interstellar O VI interstellar absorption spectra of 4 four post-extreme horizontal branch stars in the globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Lehner , J. C. Howk

A small survey of the UV-absorbing gas in 12 low-$z$ galaxy groups has been conducted using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on-board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Targets were selected from a large, homogeneously-selected sample…

The pervasive presence of warm gas in galaxy halos suggests that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase in its ionization structure and complex in its kinematics. Some recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations predict…

Possible origins of the molecular absorption discovered in some ULIRGs are investigated, based on a 3-D hydrodynamic model of star-forming interstellar gas in a galactic central region. The blue-shifted, warm ($\sim 200-300$ K), dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Keiichi Wada

O VI absorption is observed in a wide range of astrophysical environments, including the Local ISM, the disk and halo of the Milky Way, high-velocity clouds, the Magellanic clouds, starburst galaxies, the intergalactic medium, damped…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew J. Fox

We present a structural study of the hot ISM in the Galactic halo along the sight line toward the bright active galactic nucleus Mkn 421. The OVII and OVIII absorption lines were measured with the Low Energy Transmission Grating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Kazuhiro Sakai , Yangsen Yao , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Noriko Yamasaki , Q. Daniel Wang , Yoh Takei , Dan McCammon

Stars and gas in galaxies, hot intracluster medium, and intergalactic photo-ionized gas make up at most half of the baryons that are expected to be present in the universe. The majority of baryons are still missing and are expected to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Nicastro , Smita Mathur , Martin Elvis

Recent observations with the dispersive X-ray spectrometers aboard Chandra and Newton Observatory have begun to probe the properties of the X-ray intergalactic medium (IGM) at small redshifts. Using large quantities (~950 ksec) of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Andrew Rasmussen , Steven M. Kahn , Frits Paerels

The first all-sky maps of the diffuse emission of high ionization lines observed in X-rays by SRG/eROSITA, provide an excellent probe for the study of the warm-hot phase (T~10^6 K) of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the Milky Way (MW).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 N. Locatelli , G. Ponti , X. Zheng , A. Merloni , W. Becker , J. Comparat , K. Dennerl , M. J. Freyberg , M. Sasaki , M. C. H. Yeung

Studies of the molecular interstellar medium that fuels star formation and supermassive black hole growth in galaxies at cosmological distances have undergone tremendous progress over the past few years. Based on the detection of molecular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-10 Dominik A. Riechers

There is increasing evidence that some heating mechanism in addition to gravitational shock heating has been important for the hot gas inside clusters and groups of galaxies, as indicated by their observed X-ray scaling properties. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Susumu Inoue , Shin Sasaki

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is host to gas flows into and out of galaxies and regulates galaxy growth, but the multiphase, diffuse gas in this region is challenging to observe. We investigate the properties of gas giving rise to O VI…

We present a simple method for tracing the spatial distribution and predicting the physical properties of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM), from the map of galaxy light in the local universe. Under the assumption that biasing is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Viel , E. Branchini , R. Cen , J. P. Ostriker , S. Matarrese , P. Mazzotta , B. Tully

The Local Interstellar Medium (LISM) is a unique environment that presents an opportunity to study general interstellar phenomena in great detail and in three dimensions. In particular, high resolution optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Seth Redfield

The galactic gaseous halo is a gas reservoir for the interstellar medium in the galaxy disk, supplying materials for star formation. We developed a gaseous halo model connecting the galaxy disk and the gaseous halo by assuming the star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-04 Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman