Abstract

Modeling emission lines from the millimeter to the UV and producing synthetic spectra is crucial for a good understanding of observations, yet it is an art filled with hazards. This is the proceedings of “Walking the Line”, a 3-day conference held in 2018 that brought together scientists working on different aspects of emission line simulations, in order to share knowledge and discuss the methodology. Emission lines across the spectrum from the millimeter to the UV were discussed, with most of the focus on the interstellar medium, but also some topics on the circumgalactic medium. The most important quality of a useful model is a good synergy with observations and experiments. Challenges in simulating line emission are identified, some of which are already being worked upon, and others that must be addressed in the future for models to agree with observations. Recent advances in several areas aiming at achieving that synergy are summarized here, from micro-physical to galactic and circum-galactic scale.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-20-2018

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Galaxies, v. 6, issue 4, 100, p. 1-27.

© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.3390/galaxies6040100

Funding Information

M.R. gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (DGE-1550139). M.C. was supported by NASA through a grant (HST-AR-14556.001-A) from the Space Telescope Science Institute. F.G. acknowledges support by NSF (1412155). GEM acknowledges support from a research grant (13160) from Villum Fonden.

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