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arXiv 0905.1482astro-ph.GAastro-ph.HE
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银河系内部和周围的全球热气体

Global Hot Gas in and around the Galaxy

Q. Daniel Wang

摘要:

热的星际介质追踪恒星反馈及其在调节银河系生态系统中的作用。我回顾了最近的进展,在了解介质,主要是基于X射线吸收线光谱,辅以X射线发射和远紫外OVI吸收测量。这些观测使我们能够第一次描述介质的全球空间,热,化学和运动学特性。这些结果与从与银河系相似的邻近星系的X射线成像中推断的结果基本一致。很明显,特征温度为$\sim 10^6$ K的扩散软X射线发射/吸收气体主要存在于银河系盘和凸起内及其周围。例如,在太阳附近,这种气体具有$\sim 1$ kpc的特征垂直尺度高度。这一结论并不排除存在一个更大尺度、可能更热、密度更低的环银河热介质,这是解释各种高速云观测所必需的。这种热介质可能是星系形成和演化过程中恒星反馈的自然产物。

英文摘要:

The hot interstellar medium traces the stellar feedback and its role in regulating the eco-system of the Galaxy. I review recent progress in understanding the medium, based largely on X-ray absorption line spectroscopy, complemented by X-ray emission and far-UV OVI absorption measurements. These observations enable us for the first time to characterize the global spatial, thermal, chemical, and kinematic properties of the medium. The results are generally consistent with what have been inferred from X-ray imaging of nearby galaxies similar to the Galaxy. It is clear that diffuse soft X-ray emitting/absorbing gas with a characteristic temperature of $\sim 10^6$ K resides primarily in and around the Galactic disk and bulge. In the solar neighborhood, for example, this gas has a characteristic vertical scale height of $\sim 1$ kpc. This conclusion does not exclude the presence of a larger-scale, probably much hotter, and lower density circum-Galactic hot medium, which is required to explain observations of various high-velocity clouds. This hot medium may be a natural product of the stellar feedback in the context of the galaxy formation and evolution.

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