Berlin 2014 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 1: Astrophysik

EP 1.1: Hauptvortrag

Montag, 17. März 2014, 14:00–14:30, DO24 1.103

The gaseous outskirts of the Milky Way — •Philipp Richter — University of Potsdam

Galaxies like the Milky Way are surrounded by large amounts of diffuse gas that connects the stellar body of a galaxy with the surrounding cosmological large-scale structure. This diffuse gas component, commonly referred to as circumgalactic medium (CGM), plays a key role in the on-going formation and evolution of galaxies in the local Universe. In this talk I will review our current understanding of the distribution and physical nature of the circumgalactic gas surrounding the Milky Way and discuss recent observational and theoretical studies of the local CGM that provide important new information on the past and future evolution of our Galaxy.