Ideas tagged with interstellar medium

Pre-registration of a test for statistical significance of a GALFA-HI -- WMAP ILC correlation

In 2007 Gerrit Verschuur [proposed](http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/522685) that HI structures as seen in the Leiden-Argentina-Bonn 36' HI survey of the sky are correlated with structures in the WMAP sky, which are typically ascribed to the CMB. He has recently proposed to see WMAP correlations in...

By Joshua Peek

Sulfur-Bearing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Interstellar Environments

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are widely studied in an astrophysical context. Studies have also been performed on nitrogen-bearing PAH species ([Hudgins+2005](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ApJ...632..316H)) and unsuccessful searches have been performed for interstellar nitrogen-bea...

By Mark Hammonds