Gunn-Peterson Trough

Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies as a Probe of Reionization

Evidence for Reionization at z ~ 6: Detection of a Gunn-Peterson Trough in a z=6.28 Quasar

Table of Contents

  • The context of galaxies (1)/Collision/Thermal states (2, 3)
  • Energy levels (4, 5) /Spectrum and transfer (6, 7)
  • Absorption of gas (8-10) /Radio propagation (11)
  • Reading
  • Radiation field(12), Ionization and recombination (13-16)
  • Ionization and recombination (17-18，19，20)
  • Reading
  • Dust/Heating and cooling (21-28)
  • Reading
  • HI clouds (29, 30)
  • Molecular clouds (32, 33)
  • Reading
  • Hot gas (34-40)
  • Star formation (41, 42)
  • Reading
  • Textbook: Physics of the Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium by Bruce T. Draine.

Reading and viewing material:

The context of galaxies (1)/Collision/Thermal states (2, 3)

Adam Leory: Observing the Multiple Phases of the ISM in Nearby Galaxies

40 min, conference: Star Formation, Magnetic Fields, and Diffuse Matter in the Galaxy: A Conference Honoring the Contributions of Richard Crutcher & Carl Heiles, May 23-26, 2016, Madison, WI, USA ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk-w7kgKnVc&list=PLR0icYcBhA7Rv-QymeskXF15Kd-Mnh_T2&index=1 )

Energy levels (4, 5) /Spectrum and transfer (6, 7)

Exploring the Milky Way — Prof Naomi McClure Griffiths, ISS2015

The Professor Harry Messel International Science School (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVAz6dcSK0M)

Absorption of gas (8-10) /Radio propagation (11)

Naomi McClure-Griffiths : Key Results from HI Surveys over the Decades (35 min)

Conference: Star Formation, Magnetic Fields, and Diffuse Matter in the Galaxy: A Conference (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXpJIY6igE)

The Future of Time domain Radio astronomy https://video.tau.ac.il/events/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=7725:the-future-of-time-domain-radio-astronomy&Itemid=561

( https://video.tau.ac.il/events/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=1329:astronomy-symposium&Itemid=561 )

Reading

HI Science with the Square Kilometre Array (Staveley-Smith & Oosterloo 2015) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015aska.confE.167S

Galactic and Magellanic Evolution with the SKA (McClure-Griffiths, N. et al. 2015): http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015aska.confE.130M

Observations of the Intergalactic Medium and the Cosmic Web in the SKA era (Popping et al. 2015) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015aska.confE.132P

The SKA view of the Neutral Interstellar Medium in Galaxies (de Blok et al. 2015) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015arXiv150101211D

Exploring Neutral Hydrogen and Galaxy Evolution with the SKA (Blyth et al. 2015) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015aska.confE.128B

Cool Outflows and HI absorbers with SKA (Morganti, R. et al. 2015) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015aska.confE.134M

Radiation field/Ionization and recombination (12-20)

Reading

Metallicity Calibrations and the Mass-Metallicity Relation for Star-forming Galaxies (Kewley+08) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ApJ…681.1183K

The Cosmic BPT Diagram: Confronting Theory with Observations (Kewley+13) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ…774L..10K

Theoretical Evolution of Optical Strong Lines across Cosmic Time (Keyley+13) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ…774..100K

The host galaxies of active galactic nuclei (Kauffmann et al. 2003) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003MNRAS.346.1055K

The Origin of the Mass-Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star-forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Tremonti et al. 2004): http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ApJ…613..898T

The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe (Brinchmann et al. 2004) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004MNRAS.351.1151B

HII Region Ionization of the Interstellar Medium (14 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwLVkcoXcnk

Dust(21-27)

Frank Summers:The Life Cycle of Dust in Galaxies (Hubble Public Lecture Series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONJP7G5O8PM

Carolin Crawford: Star dust Gresham College Public Lecutre

Reading

The CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor and Dust-to-gas Ratio on Kiloparsec Scales in Nearby Galaxies http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013ApJ…777….5S

Mapping the cold dust temperatures and masses of nearby KINGFISH galaxies with Herschel http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012MNRAS.425..763G

The Emission by Dust and Stars of Nearby Galaxies in the Herschel KINGFISH Survey http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ…738…89S

Dust spectral energy distributions of nearby galaxies: an insight from the Herschel Reference Survey http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A…565A.128C

The dust scaling relations of the Herschel Reference Survey http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012A%26A…540A..52C

The Herschel Reference Survey: Dust in Early-type Galaxies and across the Hubble Sequence http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ…748..123S

SINGS: https://ay201b.wordpress.com/spitzer-infrared-nearby-galaxies-survey/

Star Formation in NGC 5194 (M51a): The Panchromatic View from GALEX to Spitzer http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ApJ…633..871C

Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) Imaging of NGC 7331: A Panchromatic View of a Ringed Galaxy http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ApJS..154..204R

The Opaque Nascent Starburst in NGC 1377: Spitzer SINGS Observations http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006ApJ…646..841R

Dust and Atomic Gas in Dwarf Irregular Galaxies of the M81 Group: The SINGS and THINGS View http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ…661..102W

Dust Masses, PAH Abundances, and Starlight Intensities in the SINGS Galaxy Sample http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ…663..866D

Radial Distribution of Stars, Gas, and Dust in Sings Galaxies. II. Derived Dust Properties http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ…701.1965M

Interstellar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Molecules (Tielens, A. 2008) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008ARA%26A..46..289T

Planck 2013 results. XI. All-sky model of thermal dust emission: (Planck Collaboration) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A…571A..11P

The Dust Content and Opacity of Actively Star-forming Galaxies (Calzetti, D. et al. 2000) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ApJ…533..682C

A Simple Model for the Absorption of Starlight by Dust in Galaxies (Charlot & Fall 2000) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ApJ…539..718C

Herschel-ATLAS: rapid evolution of dust in galaxies over the last 5 billion years (Dunne et al. 2011) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011MNRAS.417.1510D

A Unified Representation of Gas-Phase Element Depletions in the Interstellar Medium (Jenkins 2009) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ…700.1299J

Heating and cooling of HII region (28) HI clouds (29, 30)

Molecular clouds (32, 33)

Matt McQuinn (University of Washington): Bok Prize Lecture: The Thermal Odyssey of the Photoionoized Intergalactic Medium CfA Colloquium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbIFawjyZ9s)

Phillips Auditorium/ Dominik Riechers: Gas: A Prime Driver of Galaxy Evolution (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rkw9MuLRUI)

David Neufeld (Johns Hopkins University): Small Interstellar Molecules and What They Tell Us CfA Colloquium (1 h) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5cOOkN2Xuk)

Eric Herbst (University of Virginia): Interstellar Chemistry: Towards Large & Larger Molecules CfA Colloquium (1h) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRiE9wXu7eM)

Reading

Neutral Atomic Phases of the Interstellar Medium in the Galaxy (Wolfire et al. 2003): http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ…587..278W

The dark molecular gas (Wolfire et al. 2010) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ…716.1191W

Molecular clouds in the Milky Way (Heyer and Dame 2015, ARA&A) https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-astro-082214-122324

What is driving the HI velocity dispersion? (Tomburro et a. 2009) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4424/meta

Low CO Luminosities in dwarf galaxies (Schruba et al. 2012) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/143/6/138

Gaseous Galaxy Halos (Putman, Peek & Joung 2012, ARA&A) https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-astro-081811-125612

The shapes of the HI velocity profiles of the THINGS galaxies (Lanjamasimanana et al. 2012) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/144/4/96

The fine-scale structure of the neutral interstellar medium in nearby galaxies http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/141/1/23

  1. What is driving the HI velocity dispersion? (Tomburro et a. 2009) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/137/5/4424/meta

  2. HI and CO velocity dispersions in nearby galaxies (Mogotsi et al. 2016) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/1/15

  3. H I Power Spectra and the Turbulent Interstellar Medium of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies (Zhang et al. 2012) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ…754…29Z

  4. The radial variation of HI velocity dispersion in dwarfs and spirals (Lanjamasimanana et al. 2015) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/150/2/47

  5. The morphology and kinematics of neutral hydrogen in the vicinity of z = 0 galaxies with Milky Way masses - a study with the Illustris simulation (Kauffmann 2016) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.462.3751K

The Evolving Interstellar Medium of Star-forming Galaxies since z = 2 as Probed by Their Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ…760….6M

Hot gas (34-40)

Brant Robertson (University of Arizona): Bok Prize Lecture: New Insights into Astrophysical Turbulence CfA Colloquium (1h) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRbZ1NTrmk)

Star formation (41, 42)

William Blair: A Multi-wavelength View of Stellar Life and Death in M83 1 h, Hubble Public Lecture Series ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRpl4I0ggOo )

Carolin Crawford: The lives of stars, Gresham College Public Lecture

Jason Kalirai (STScI): Stellar Astrophysics: 100 Years After Russell, CfA Colloquium (1 h) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFHlveJzK8)

Daniel P. Marrone (University of Arizona): Bok Prize Lecture: Star Formation and Molecular Gas in the First Three Billion Years, CfA Colloquium (1 h) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK1s4hhMaRk)

Mark Krumholz Formation of molecular clouds and global conditions for star formation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpUJnROpRc0

Reading

Star formation in the Milky Way and Nearby galaxies (Kennicutt & Evans 2012) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ARA%26A..50..531K

The star formation law in nearby galaxies on sub-kpc scales (Bigiel et al. 2008) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/136/6/2846

The star formation efficiency in nearby galaxies: measuring where gas forms stars effectively (Leroy et al. 2008) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/136/6/2782

The Star formation law in atomic and molecular gas (Krumholz, Mckee & Tumlinson 2009) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ…699..850K

The star formation law in molecular-poor galaxies (Krumholz 2013) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRAS.436.2747K

Regulation of star formation rates in multiphase galactic disks: A thermal/dynmical equilibrium model (Ostriker et al. 2010) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ…721..975O

The Star formation law in atomic and molecular gas (Krumholz, Mckee & Tumlinson 2009) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ…699..850K

Star formation in molecular clouds (Krumholz2011) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AIPC.1386….9K

A molecular star formation law in the atomic gas dominated regime in nearby galaxies (Schruba et al. 2011) http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-6256/142/2/37

The evolution of the dust and gas content in galaxies (Santini et al. 2014) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A…562A..30S