ASTRO-H White Paper - High Resolution Spectroscopy of Interstellar and Circumgalactic Gas in the Milky Way and Other Galaxies
astro-ph.HE
/ Authors
F. Paerels, N. Yamasaki, N. Anabuki, E. Costantini, C. de Vries, R. Fujimoto, A. Hornschemeier, R. Iizuka, C. Kilbourne, S. Konami
and 16 more authors
S. LaMassa, M. Loewenstein, D. McCammon, K. Matsushita, B. McNamara, I. Mitsuishi, R. Nagino, T. Nakagawa, S. Porter, K. Sakai, R. K. Smith, Y. Takei, T. Tsuru, H. Uchiyama, H. Yamaguchi, S. Yamauchi
/ Abstract
We describe the potential of high resolution imaging spectroscopy with the SXS on ASTRO-H to advance our understanding of the interstellar- and circumgalactic media of our own Galaxy, and other galaxies. Topics to be addressed range from absorption spectroscopy of dust in the Galactic interstellar medium, to observations to constrain the total mass-, metal-, and energy flow out of starburst galaxies.