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Thermal Structure and Chemical Enrichment of the North and South Polar Spurs: Supersolar N/O and Ne/O in the X-ray Plasma
Anjali Gupta, Smita Mathur, Joshua Kingsbury +5
The North Polar Spur (NPS) is a prominent diffuse X-ray feature whose origin has remained uncertain for decades. Using a uniform analysis of archival \textit{Suzaku} and \textit{XM…
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Not Where You Left Them: Displaced -Rays and X-Rays Reveal the Cosmic Ray Scattering Rate
Manami Roy, Mark R. Krumholz, Roland M. Crocker +1
Modern X-ray and -ray instruments are revealing a growing class of Galactic non-thermal sources whose emission centroids are measurably offset from the nearest plausible sites o…
astro-ph.CO2026
Weibel Instability-Driven Seed Magnetic Fields during Reionization
Jorie McDermott, Manami Roy, Christopher M. Hirata
Cosmological reionization was a highly out-of-equilibrium event that affected every parcel of the intergalactic medium, making it a candidate for astrophysical generation of interg…