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Constraining turbulence in disks is key towards understanding their evolution through the transport of angular momentum. Until now measurements of high turbulence have remained elusive and methods for estimating turbulence relay mostly on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 T. Paneque-Carreño , A. F. Izquierdo , R. Teague , A. Miotello , E. A. Bergin , R. Loomis , E. F. van Dishoeck

Diffuse ionized gas pervades the disk of the Milky Way. We detect extremely faint emission from this Galactic Warm Ionized Medium (WIM) using the Green Bank Telescope to make radio recombination line (RRL) observations toward two Milky Way…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-10 T. M. Bania , Dana S. Balser , Trey V. Wenger , Spencer J. Ireland , L. D. Anderson , Matteo Luisi

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) has completed a velocity-resolved map of diffuse H-alpha emission of the entire northern sky, providing the first comprehensive picture of both the distribution and kinematics of diffuse ionized gas in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 G. J. Madsen

We present a study of the small-scale structure of the interstellar medium in the Milky Way. We used HST STIS data to measure N(HI) in a pencil-beam toward 59 AGNs and compared the results with the values seen at 9 arcmin - 36 arcmin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Bart P. Wakker , Felix J. Lockman , Jonathan M. Brown

One of the keys to interpreting the character and evolution of interstellar matter in the galaxy is understanding the distribution of the low density hot (10^5 K -10^6 K) phase of the interstellar medium (ISM). This phase is much more…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric J. Korpela , Stuart Bowyer , Jerry Edelstein

The Warm Ionized Medium (WIM), also referred to as Diffuse Ionized Gas, contains most of the mass of interstellar medium in ionized form, contributing as much as 30% of the total atomic gas mass in the solar neighborhood. The advent of CCDs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rene A. M. Walterbos

The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) arises from shock-heated gas collapsing in large-scale filaments and probably harbours a substantial fraction of the baryons in the local Universe. Absorption-line measurements in the ultraviolet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Richter , F. B. S. Paerels , J. S. Kaastra

The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) is believed to host a significant fraction of the ``missing baryons'' in the nearby Universe. Its signature has been detected in the X-ray absorption spectra of distant quasars. However, its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 G. Parimbelli , E. Branchini , M. Viel , F. Villaescusa-Navarro , J. ZuHone

Small-scale fluctuations of different tracers of the interstellar the medium can be used to study the nature of turbulence in astrophysical scales. Of these, the `continuum' emission traces the fluctuations integrated along the line of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Samir Choudhuri , Nirupam Roy

Electrons densities in different locations of our galaxy are obtained in pulsar astronomy by dividing the dispersion measure (DM) by the distance of the pulsar to Earth. The properties of the interstellar plasma are related to its heating.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Y. Ben-Aryeh

H-alpha emission from neutral halo clouds probes the radiation and hydrodynamic conditions in the halo. Armed with such measurements, we can explore how radiation escapes from the Galactic plane and how infalling gas can survive a trip…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-09 L. M. Haffner , A. K. Duncan , S. M. Hoffman , G. J. Madsen , A. S. Hill , R. J. Reynolds

The radio frequency 1.4 GHz transition of the atomic hydrogen is one of the important tracers of the diffuse neutral interstellar medium. Radio astronomical observations of this transition, using either a single dish telescope or an array…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-29 Nirupam Roy

A comprehensive study of interstellar medium phases and the nature of their boundaries or connections requires comparing abundances and velocity profiles from tracers of the different phases. In the UV, studies of a wealth of absorption…

X-ray observations of the hot gas filling the intra-cluster medium provide a wealth of information on the dynamics of clusters of galaxies. The global equilibrium of the ICM is believed to be partially ensured by non-thermal pressure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 E. Cucchetti , N. Clerc , E. Pointecouteau , P. Peille , F. Pajot

Hydrodynamic simulations predict that a significant fraction of the gas in the current Universe is in the form of high temperature, highly ionized plasma emitting and absorbing primarily in the soft X-ray and UV bands, dubbed the Warm-Hot…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-31 Eugenio Ursino , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Mauro Roncarelli

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…

The interstellar medium (ISM) is turbulent on all scales and in all phases. In this paper, we study turbulence with different tracers in four nearby star-forming regions: Orion, Ophiuchus, Perseus, and Taurus. We combine the APOGEE-2 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Trung Ha , Yuan Li , Marina Kounkel , Siyao Xu , Hui Li , Yong Zheng

The H-alpha line emission is an important probe for a number of fundamental quantities in galaxies, including their number density, star formation rate (SFR) and overall gas content. A new generation of low-resolution intensity mapping…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-15 Marta B. Silva , Saleem Zaroubi , Robin Kooistra , Asantha Cooray

We discuss the role of turbulence in establishing the observed emission measures and ionization of the warm ionized medium. A Monte Carlo radiative transfer code applied to a snapshot of a simulation of a supernova-driven,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-03-07 Alex S. Hill , Kenneth Wood , L. Matthew Haffner

Turbulent dynamics generate random fluctuations in density and velocity in the Interstellar Medium (ISM) of spiral and dwarf galaxies. Observationally, H~{\sc i} 21-cm radiation provides a good probe of these stochastic processes and helps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-30 Meera Nandakumar