8 papers
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…
Constraining the Sub-Galactic Relationship Between Star Formation and the Hot Interstellar Medium in NGC 4254
Erik B. Monson, Bret D. Lehmer, Amirnezam Amiri +17
We investigate the relationship between star formation and X-ray emission from the hot interstellar medium (ISM) on kpc scales in NGC 4254 (M99) by combining spatially resolv…
Deep X-ray observation of NGC 3221: everything everywhere all at once
Sanskriti Das, Smita Mathur, Bret D. Lehmer +3
We present a comprehensive analysis of 475 ks (438 ks unpublished & 37 ks archival) XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn observation of a nearby, highly inclined, star-forming, luminous infrared gal…
Resolved HII regions in NGC 253: Ionized gas structure and suggestions of a universal density-surface brightness relation
Rebecca L. McClain, Adam K. Leroy, Enrico Congiu +23
We use the full-disk VLT-MUSE mosaic of NGC 253 to identify 2492 HII regions and study their resolved structure. With an average physical resolution of 17 pc, this is one of the la…
Detection of 'super-virial' gas in the Circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way towards PKS 2155-304
Mukesh Singh Bisht, Sanskriti Das, Smita Mathur +3
We present the first simultaneous detection of four distinct highly ionized absorbing phases using Chandra and XMM-Newton grating spectra toward the blazar PKS 2155…
Thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect in the circumgalactic medium -- II: dependence on star formation
Sanskriti Das, Nhut Truong, Yi-Kuan Chiang +1
We measure thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Effect in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 2.5 million = WISEDESI galaxies out…