The low Galactic halo is enveloped by a sheath of ionized, low-metallicity gas, which can provide a substantial (1 M_sun/yr) cooling inflow to replenish star formation in the disk. Using absorption spectra from the HST and FUSE toward 37 active galactic nuclei at high latitude, we detect widespread interstellar SiIII 1206.5 absorption: 61 high-velocity clouds (HVCs) along 30 sight lines and 22 intermediate-velocity clouds (IVCs) along 20 sight lines. We find a segregation of redshifted and blueshifted absorbers across the Galactic rotation axis at l=180, consistent with a lag in the rotation velocity above the Galactic plane. The HVC sky coverage is large (81+-5% for 30/37 directions) with SiIII optical depth typically 4-5 times that of OVI 1032. The mean HVC column density per sight line, <log N_SiIII>=13.42+-0.21, corresponds to total column density N_HII~6x10^18)/(Z_Si/0.2Z_sun) of ionized low-metallicity gas, similar to that inferred in OVI. This reservoir could total 10^8 M_sun and produce a mass infall rate ~1 M_sun/yr. By modeling SiII, SiIII, SiIV, and HI in a subset of absorbers, we constrain the mean photoionization parameter in the low halo, <log U> = -3.0 (+0.3,-0.4), approximately ten times lower than observed in the low-redshift intergalactic medium. The metallicities in some HVCs, derived from [SiII/HI], are 10-30% solar, whereas values found from all three silicon ions are lower in the pure-photoionization models. Thse formally lower metallicities are highly uncertain, since some of the higher ions may be collisionally ionized. The mean Si metallicities, <logZ_Si/Z_sun)>= -2.1(+1.1,-0.3) in 17 HVCs and -1.0(+0.6,-1.0) in 19 IVCs, are somewhat uncertain owing to ionization modeling, but consistent with the median photometric metallicity, [Fe/H]=-1.46+-0.30, for ~2e5 halo F/G stars in SDSS.
Comments on "A huge reservoir of ionized gas around the Milky Way: accounting for the missing mass?" (2012 ApJL, 756, 8) and "The warm-hot gaseous halo of the Milky Way" (arXiv1211.3137)
Fuelling the central region of galaxies with misaligned gas accretion
University of Southampton(南安普顿大学);Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul(南里奥格兰德联邦大学);University of Copenhagen(哥本哈根大学);Steward Observatory, University of Arizona(亚利桑那大学斯图尔德天文台)
Two-Face(s): ionized and neutral gas winds in the local Universe
本文对斯隆数字巡天(SDSS,DR 7)光谱样品中Na I $λ$ 5890,5895(Na I D)共振线进行了全面的研究,以寻找本星系中的中性气体外流。个别星系光谱堆叠箱M ${\star}$和SFR调查的依赖性的星系风的发生和速度作为一个函数的星系位置在SFR- $M{\star}$平面。在大质量星系的高SFR尾部,我们发现一个显着的蓝移Na I D吸收的证据,我们解释为中性流出气体的证据。在固定的SFR下,纯SF星系、活动星系核和复合系统的蓝移吸收的发生具有相同的意义。在所有类别的对象的蓝移是最大的和Na I D等效宽度最小的正面星系,而吸收功能是在系统速度的边缘上的系统。这表明中性外流相对于银盘大多是垂直的或双锥的。我们还比较了中性气体的运动学与电离的气相跟踪的[OIII] $λ$ 5007,H $α$,[NII] $\lambda6548$和[NII] $\lambda6584$发射线。与此同时,对于中性气相,所有的发射线都显示出只有在具有显著核活动水平的星系中才有扰动运动学的证据,并且它们与盘倾角无关。总之,我们发现,在本地宇宙中,星系风显示出两个方面,这是与两种不同的喷射机制,即中性流出的气体相的SF活动沿星系盘和电离相的活动星系核反馈有关。在中性和电离气体阶段,观测到的风速表明,流出的气体仍然束缚在星系中,对气体库没有明确的影响。
HYPERION. The cold ISM of rapidly growing $z>6$ quasars: diverse gas reservoirs, dust enrichment, and feedback signatures
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma(意大利国家天体物理研究所罗马天文台);IFPU - Institute for Fundamental Physics of the Universe(宇宙基础物理研究所);INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste(意大利国家天体物理研究所的里雅斯特天文台);INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna(意大利国家天体物理研究所博洛尼亚空间天体物理学与科学观测站);Scuola Normale Superiore(比萨高等师范学院)
The molecular gas reservoir of 6 low-metallicity galaxies from the Herschel Dwarf Galaxy Survey: A ground-based follow-up survey of CO(1-0), CO(2-1), and CO(3-2)
NGC 6860, Mrk 915, and MCG -01-24-012. II. Inflowing and outflowing cold molecular gas and the connection with ionized gas in Seyfert galaxies
Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut(海德堡大学天文中心,天文计算研究所);Departamento de Astronomia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul(南里奥格兰德联邦大学天文学系);Astronomy Department, Universidad de Concepción(康塞普西翁大学天文学系);Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN-IGN)-Observatorio de Madrid(国家天文台(OAN-IGN)马德里天文台);Departamento de Física, CCNE, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria(圣玛丽亚联邦大学物理系,CCNE);Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA(西班牙国家技术研究委员会-国家航空航天技术研究所天体生物学中心);Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku(图尔库大学芬兰ESO天文学中心)
Constraining the mass of the M31 ionized baryon Halo using CHIME/FRB Catalog 2
University of California, Santa Cruz(加州大学圣克鲁兹分校);University of Dodoma(多多马大学);Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)(宇宙物理与数学基础卡弗里研究所);National Astronomical Observatory of Japan(日本国立天文台);Northwestern University(西北大学);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校);McGill University(麦吉尔大学);Trottier Space Institute, McGill University(麦吉尔大学特罗蒂尔太空研究所);University of Amsterdam(阿姆斯特丹大学)
大麦哲伦云和小麦哲伦云(LMC/SMC)是银河系中距离最近的主要卫星星系。它们很可能是第一次在向我们银河系坠落的轨道上通过(Besla et al. 2007),并追踪本星系群的持续动态(D 'Onghia & Fox 2016)。最近对大麦哲伦星系高质量的测量(M_halo = 10^(11.1-11.4)太阳质量; Penarrubia et al. 2016,Erkal et al. 2018,2019,Kallivayalil et al. 2018)意味着大麦哲伦星系应该有一个麦哲伦日冕:维里温度(10^(5.3-5.5)K)的碰撞电离的温热气体晕,最初延伸到维里半径(100-130 kpc)。这样的日冕将塑造麦哲伦流的形成(Lucchini et al. 2020),这是一种在天空中延伸超过200度的潮汐气体结构(D 'Onghia & Fox 2016,Besla et al. 2012,Nidever et al. 2010),将贫金属气体带入银河系(Fox et al. 2014)。之前没有发表过这样一个扩展日冕的观测证据,只报道了直接朝向LMC方向的高度电离气体的探测,LMC盘的风可能占主导地位(deBoer & Savage 1980,Wakker et al. 1998)。在这里,我们展示了麦哲伦日冕的证据,它可以直接探测到高电离氧(O^+5),也可以通过氚…
Galactic Rain: Cool Gas Inflows in Red Geyser Galaxies and Their Connection to AGN Activity and Interactions
University of California, Santa Cruz(加州大学圣克鲁兹分校);Arizona State University(亚利桑那州立大学);Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学);University of California Observatories(加州大学天文台);San Diego State University(圣地亚哥州立大学);University of California, San Diego(加州大学圣地亚哥分校)
Probing the molecular gas content of galaxies in an over-dense group at z~0.7: A test case for environmental quenching
Université de Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡大学);Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg(斯特拉斯堡天文台);Aix Marseille Univ(艾克斯-马赛大学);Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope(加拿大-法国-夏威夷望远镜);Université de Toulouse(图卢兹大学);Observatoire de Paris(巴黎天文台);PSL University(巴黎文理研究大学);Sorbonne University(索邦大学);Collège de France(法兰西公学院);Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)(波茨坦莱布尼茨天体物理研究所)