Spectral Predictions For Cooling Hot Gas

HOT GAS --- "A Way Cool Subject"

SPECTRAL PREDICTIONS FOR COOLING HOT GAS

All the major “cooling” lines for a million °K gas have wavelengths in the 30Å - 1500Å region
This emission is very diffuse and of very low intensity
Only sensitive X-ray and UV spectroscopic instruments with large fields of view can detect this emission

1. What's Out There?	5. How Is Interstellar Gas Heated?	9. Spectral Predictions for Cooling Hot Gas
2. How Do We Observe Hot Gas?	6. How Does Interstellar Gas Cool?	10. The CHIPS Mission
3. What Heats & Ionizes Interstellar Gas?	7. Where's the Best Place to Look for Hot Interstellar Gas?	11. Simulated CHIPS Sky Maps
4. How Do Things Heat & Cool?	8. What Does the Local Bubble Look Like	12. The CHIPS Mission