Andri Spilker

• Kainulainen, Jouni; Rezaei, Sara; Spilker, Andri & Orkisz, Jan (2022). The effect of viewing angle on the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation of the local molecular clouds. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 659(L6). Full text in Research Archive
• Spilker, Andri; Kainulainen, Jouni & Orkisz, Jan (2022). Bird’s eye view of molecular clouds in the Milky Way: II. Cloud kinematics from subparsec to kiloparsec scales. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 667(A110). Full text in Research Archive
• Spilker, Andri; Kainulainen, Jouni & Orkisz, Jan (2021). Bird's eye view of molecular clouds in the Milky Way: I. Column density and star formation from sub-pc to kpc scales. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 653(A63). Full text in Research Archive

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• Akerholt, Line Nybakk; Spilker, Andri & Shan, Yutong (2025). Astronomy libraries "In the middle of everyting" under severe pressure - coping or reinventing? doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.17749494. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In 2010 we presented the talk "In Between or in the Middle of Everything" - since then, rapid technological development, sequential reorganizations, and changes in the handling of costs at the university level, have influenced our tasks and roles. Academic subject librarians and their special knowledge competes with the larger and more generic trends and constraints in the university library organizations. With this poster we wish to point out strategies and activities for maintaining focus on astronomy and the greater STEM librarian fellowship.

• Cumming, Robert C.; Varenius, Eskil; Jolly, Jean-Baptiste & Spilker, Andri (2021). Radioteleskop för alla. Fysikaktuellt. Full text in Research Archive
• Spilker, Andri (2017). Ti ting du bør vite om astrofysikk. Adresseavisen. ISSN 0805-3804. Full text in Research Archive
• Spilker, Andri (2023). Bird’s eye view of star formation in the local Milky Way - How perspective changes with scale, time and viewing angle. Chalmers. ISSN 9789179058166. Full text in Research Archive
• Spilker, Andri (2018). Origins, distribution and kinematics of circumgalactic O VI around star forming L* galaxies. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Analysing the state of the art, zoom-in simulation "Eris", we study the distribution, origins and kinematics of O~VI gas around star forming L* galaxies. A detailed comparison to observations from the COS-halo survey is made, by generating sightlines through the simulated halo and examining the properties of the gas along them. At $z \sim$ 0, the O~VI column density is between $10^{14}$ and $10^{15}$ cm$^{-2}$ up to 300 kpc, consistent with the COS-halo data. This column density appears to remain unchanged from $z=3$ to $z=0$ in the range of 10-100 kpc, which is at least partially explained by an expanding O~VI bubble. O~VI rich gas particles in Eris are tracked from $z=0$ to $z=3$, with the aim of finding the origin of the circumgalactic O~VI gas. The result demonstrates that most of the O~VI rich corona gas in Eris is be enriched and heated by supernova feedback at early times, in contrast with the classical interpretation of hot mode shock accretion. The majority of the O~VI bearing gas is outflowing at all times, but the inflowing component increases with time. The mass distribution of the circumgalactic O~VI peaks at the virial radii for all redshifts. The majority of the gas traced by O~VI is warm-hot corona gas with temperature $10^5$ K $<$ T $<10^6$ K, and the density of the O~VI gas is around $10^{-5}-10^{-4}$ cm$^{-3}$. The gas is mainly collisionally ionised, but photoionisation also has a non-negligible impact on O~VI abundance beyond 100 kpc. Synthetic O~VI spectra for the Eris simulation are generated in post-processing, and are fitted to find broadening parameters. With this we recreate the column density relation to broadening parameter seen in the COS-halo survey and other observations. Although the simulation successfully reproduces the observed column density distribution of O~VI and H~I, it underpredicts the column densities of low metallic ions, indicating the need of alternative non-thermal feedback, or a better resolution of the CGM in cosmological simulations.

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