Abstract
The properties of hot gaseous haloes in massive early-type galaxies are briefly reviewed. Gas flows in such haloes are complex yet so large-scale that they may guide us in the understanding of flows around disk galaxies. The intracluster medium is discussed as a further illustration of the properties of diffuse hot gas trapped in a gravtational well. Finally, the possibility of the existence of a significant diffuse medium in the Local Group, and in groups in general, is revived. Such a medium would generate a substantial disk-halo interaction with our Galaxy.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)