#interstellar medium

12 results
astro-ph.GA2026

Galactic HII regions in LAMOST Medium-Resolution Spectroscopic Survey of Nebulae

Yunning Zhao, Wei Zhang, Lin Ma +10

The paper uses LAMOST medium‑resolution spectra to confirm 255 Galactic H II regions in the outer Milky Way and measures their electron temperature, density, and oxygen abundance t…

#galactic h ii regions#spectroscopic surveys#abundance gradients#interstellar medium
astro-ph.GA2026

Exploring the Limits of Spectral Line Stacking in Spectral Line Data and Application Toward the Detection of Bulk C Enrichment of Aromatics in TMC-1

Miya Duffy, Ryan A. Loomis, Martin S. Holdren +9

The paper evaluates spectral line stacking and matched‑filter techniques to detect faint 13C‑substituted aromatic molecules in the cold cloud TMC‑1, demonstrating the method’s abil…

#spectral line stacking#isotopic ratios#polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons#interstellar medium
astro-ph.GA2026

The evolution of galaxy dust scaling relations in the COLIBRE simulations

Aswin P. Vijayan, James W. Trayford, Joop Schaye +11

The paper uses the COLIBRE cosmological simulations to study how dust mass, composition, and grain sizes in galaxies evolve from the early Universe to the present, comparing predic…

#dust evolution#cosmological simulations#galaxy scaling relations#interstellar medium
astro-ph.GA2026

Space as a spectroscopic laboratory: High-resolution spectroscopy of the [C II] hyperfine structure with SOFIA/upGREAT

S. Kabanovic, V. Ossenkopf-Okada, S. Schlemmer +13

The paper uses high‑resolution SOFIA/upGREAT observations of the 158 µm [13C II] line to directly measure its hyperfine splitting and determine the magnetic‑dipole hyperfine consta…

#interstellar medium#spectroscopy#hyperfine structure#CII line
astro-ph.GA2026

The COLIBRE-SKIRT pipeline: Calibration-free dust radiative transfer postprocessing for cosmological simulations

Andrea Gebek, Maarten Baes, Nick Andreadis +16

The paper introduces the COLIBRE‑SKIRT pipeline, a calibration‑free method that uses the SKIRT radiative transfer code to generate multi‑wavelength mock observations from large‑vol…

#dust radiative transfer#cosmological galaxy simulations#interstellar medium#synthetic spectra
astro-ph.GA2026

The World Cup in space: Finding ionised buckyballs in the ISM with CARMENES

J. Maíz Apellániz

The paper reports the detection of ionised buckminsterfullerene (C₆₀⁺) in the interstellar medium by using multi‑epoch CARMENES spectra to shift diffuse interstellar bands away fro…

#diffuse interstellar bands#ionised buckminsterfullerene#carmenes spectrograph#telluric correction
astro-ph.HE2026

Pitch-Angle Scattering of Cosmic Rays: Confronting Theory with Observations

Huirong Yan, Siqi Zhao, Ming Zhang

The paper compares cosmic‑ray pitch‑angle diffusion inferred from Tibet ASγ anisotropy measurements in the local interstellar medium with theoretical models, finding that scatterin…

#cosmic rays#pitch-angle scattering#magnetohydrodynamic turbulence#fast-mode waves
astro-ph.GA2026

Investigating anomalous microwave emission near G107.2+5.20 in Ku-band with the Green Bank Telescope

Jordan E. Shroyer, Bradley R. Johnson, Dillon J. Bass +6

The authors use Green Bank Telescope Ku‑band observations to map the region around G107.2+5.20, constraining the low‑frequency side of the anomalous microwave emission spectrum and…

#anomalous microwave emission#spinning dust#radio observations#interstellar medium
astro-ph.IM2026

DragonflyPol: Wide-Field Optical Linear Polarimetry with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array (Instrument Description and Commissioning)

Mehrnoosh Tahani, Leo Hollberg, Hiroshi Akitaya +9

The paper presents DragonflyPol, a wide-field optical linear polarimetry system built on the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, describing its modular design, laboratory characterization o…

#wide-field polarimetry#optical instrumentation#dragonfly telephoto array#interstellar medium
astro-ph.GA2026

Up, Up, and Away? Quantifying ISM Fallback using Ram Pressure Stripping Simulations

Harrison J. Souchereau, Stephanie Tonnesen, Jingyao Zhu +1

The paper uses hydrodynamical wind‑tunnel simulations of a dwarf galaxy in a Coma‑like cluster to study how cold interstellar gas cycles between outflow and inflow (fallback) durin…

#ram pressure stripping#interstellar medium#galaxy evolution#hydrodynamical simulations
astro-ph.HE2026

Exploring the Galactic plasma with pulsars in the SKA Era

Caterina Tiburzi, M. T. Lam, D. J. Reardon +17

The paper reviews how pulsar observations are used to probe the ionised plasma of the Milky Way, including electron density, turbulence, scattering, and magnetic fields, and discus…

#pulsars#interstellar medium#plasma#square kilometre array
astro-ph.HE2026

Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray Study on the Core-collapse Supernova Remnant N63A in an H II Region

Hanxiao Chen, Yang Chen, Lei Sun +1

The paper presents a detailed X‑ray analysis of the supernova remnant N63A in the Large Magellanic Cloud using Chandra and XMM‑Newton data, revealing multi‑temperature plasma compo…

#supernova remnants#x-ray astronomy#large magellanic cloud#interstellar medium