The Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies. III. Diffuse, Warm Ionized Medium and Escape of Ionizing Radiation

Oey, M. S.; Meurer, Gerhardt; Yelda, S; Furst, E J; Caballero-Nieves, S. M.; Hanish, D J; Levesque, E. M.; Thilker, D. A.; Walth, G. L.; Bland-Hawthorn, Joss; Dopita, Michael; Ferguson, Henry C; Heckman, T M; Doyle, Marianne T; Drinkwater, Michael John; Freeman, Kenneth; Kennicutt, Robert C; Kilborn, Virginia A; Knezek, Patricia M; Koribalski, Baerbel S; Meyer, Martin; Putman, Mary E; Ryan-Weber, E V; Smith, R. Chris; Staveley-Smith, L.; Webster, Rachel L; Werk, J; Zwaan, M A

The Survey for Ionization in Neutral Gas Galaxies. III. Diffuse, Warm Ionized Medium and Escape of Ionizing Radiation

Date

2007

Authors

Oey, M. S.

Meurer, Gerhardt

Yelda, S

Furst, E J

Caballero-Nieves, S. M.

Hanish, D J

Levesque, E. M.

Thilker, D. A.

Walth, G. L.

Bland-Hawthorn, Joss

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

We use the first data release from the SINGG Hα survey of H I-selected galaxies to study the quantitative behavior of the diffuse, warm ionized medium (WIM) across the range of properties represented by these 109 galaxies. The mean fraction f WIM of diff