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Table 3.

Definitions of ISM phases(a) and their respective gas temperature and hydrogen abundance ranges.

ISM phase definition Abbreviation Temperature [K] Hydrogen abundance
Hot Ionised Medium HIM T > 5 × 105
Warm-Hot Ionised Medium WHIM 3.5 × 104 < T < 5.0 × 105
Warm Collisionally Ionised Medium WCIM 1.5 × 104 < T < 3.5 × 104 χHII > 0.5
Warm Photoionised Medium WPIM 6.0 × 103 < T < 1.5 × 104 χHII > 0.5
Warm Neutral Medium WNM 6.0 × 103 < T < 3.5 × 104 χHI > 0.5
Warm Ionised Medium WIM T < 6.0 × 103 χHII > 0.5
Unstable Neutral Medium UNM 5.0 × 102 < T < 6.0 × 103 χHI > 0.5
Cold Neutral Medium CNM T < 5.0 × 102 χHI > 0.5
Cold Molecular Medium UMM T < 6.0 × 103 χH2 > 0.25

Notes. Hydrogen abundances are obtained according to the relation: χHI = 1 − 2χH2 − χHII, meaning that χH2 = 0.5 for gas cells where all of the hydrogen is in molecular form.

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Adopted from Kim et al. (2023b), with the difference that we use the term ‘warm ionised medium’ for what they call ‘unstable ionised medium’.

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