A huge reservoir of ionized gas around the milky way: Accounting for the missing mass?

Astrophysical Journal Letters

Volumn 756, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gupta, A ^a   Mathur, S ^a   Krongold, Y ^b   Nicastro, F ^c,d   Galeazzi, M ^e  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

cosmology: observations; Galaxy: halo; intergalactic medium; quasars: absorption lines; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865185798     PISSN: 20418205     EISSN: 20418213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/756/1/L8     Document Type: Article

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