Widespread Detection of Two Components in the Hot Circumgalactic Medium of the Milky Way

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dc.contributor.authorBluem, Jesse
dc.contributor.authorKaaret, Philip
dc.contributor.authorKuntz, K. D.
dc.contributor.authorJahoda, Keith M.
dc.contributor.authorKoutroumpa, Dimitra
dc.contributor.authorHodges-Kluck, Edmund J.
dc.contributor.authorFuller, Chase A.
dc.contributor.authorLaRocca, Daniel M.
dc.contributor.authorZajczyk, Anna
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-22T20:48:37Z
dc.date.available2022-08-22T20:48:37Z
dc.date.issued2022-08-04
dc.description.abstractSurrounding the Milky Way (MW) is the circumgalactic medium (CGM), an extended reservoir of hot gas that has significant implications for the evolution of the MW. We used the HaloSat all-sky survey to study the CGM's soft X-ray emission in order to better define its distribution and structure. We extend a previous HaloSat study of the southern CGM (Galactic latitude b < -30 deg) to include the northern CGM (b > 30 deg) and find evidence that at least two hot gas model components at different temperatures are required to produce the observed emission. The cooler component has a typical temperature of kT ~ 0.18 keV, while the hotter component has a typical temperature of kT ~ 0.7 keV. The emission measure in both the warm and hot components has a wide range (~ 0.005 - 0.03, ~ 0.0005 - 0.004 cm-6 pc respectively), indicating that the CGM is clumpy. A patch of relatively consistent CGM was found in the north, allowing for the CGM spectrum to be studied in finer detail using a stacked spectrum. The stacked spectrum is well described with a model including two hot gas components at temperatures of kT = 0.166 +/- 0.005 keV and kT = 0.69 +0.04 -0.05 keV. As an alternative to adding a hot component, a neon-enhanced single-temperature model of the CGM was also tested and found to have worse fit statistics and poor residuals.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02477en_US
dc.format.extent23 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.genrepreprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2k6sx-yuqv
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.02477
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/25541
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Center for Space Sciences and Technology
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
dc.rightsThis work was written as part of one of the author's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 U.S.C. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under U.S. Law.en_US
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dc.titleWidespread Detection of Two Components in the Hot Circumgalactic Medium of the Milky Wayen_US
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