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most citedThe hot circumgalactic medium of the Milky Way: evidence for super-virial, virial, and sub-virial temperature, non-solar chemical composition, and non-thermal line broadening

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astro-ph.GA2025

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We present a comprehensive analysis of 475 ks (438 ks unpublished & 37 ks archival) XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn observation of a nearby, highly inclined, star-forming, luminous infrared gal…

astro-ph.GA2025

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

astro-ph.GA2025

Where is the Supervirial Gas? III. Insights from X-ray Shadow Observations and a revised Model for the Soft Diffuse X-ray Background

Anjali Gupta, Smita Mathur, Joshua Kingsbury +5

Shadow observations provide a powerful tool to separate foreground components of the soft diffuse X-ray background (SDXB) from the background components. Such observations have now…

astro-ph.GA2024

Where is the Super-virial Gas? II: Insight from the Survey of Galactic Sightlines

Manami Roy, Smita Mathur, Sanskriti Das +3

Recent observations have revealed a super-virial temperature gas phase at log(T/K) in the Milky Way, challenging existing galaxy-formation models. This hot gas phase was di…

astro-ph.GA2024

Where is the Supervirial hot gas? I: A pilot study with sightlines to Galactic X-ray binaries

Armando Lara-DI, Yair Krongold, Smita Mathur +4

Hot, \logT\ 7.5, gas was recently discovered in the Milky Way in extragalactic sightlines. In order to determine its location, here we present sightlines to Galactic X-ray b…

astro-ph.GA20245 cited

A Sub-solar Fe/O, logT~7.5 Gas Component Permeating the Milky Way's CGM

Armando Lara-DI, Yair Krongold, Smita Mathur +3

Our study focuses on characterizing the highly ionized gas within the Milky Way's (MW) Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) that gives rise to ionic transitions in the X-ray band 2 - 25 Å.…