The evolution of galaxies and clusters at high spatial resolution with AXIS
Abstract
Stellar and black hole feedback heat and disperse surrounding cold gas clouds, launching gas flows off circumnuclear and galactic disks and producing a dynamic interstellar medium. On large scales bordering the cosmic web, feedback drives enriched gas out of galaxies and groups, seeding the intergalactic medium with heavy elements. In this way, feedback shapes galaxy evolution by shutting down star formation and ultimately curtailing the growth of structure after the peak at redshift 2-3. To understand the complex interplay between gravity and feedback, we must resolve both the key physics within galaxies and map the impact of these processes over large scales, out into the cosmic web. The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a proposed X-ray probe mission for the 2030s with arcsecond spatial resolution, large effective area, and low background. AXIS will untangle the interactions of winds, radiation, jets, and supernovae with the surrounding ISM across the wide range of mass scales and large volumes driving galaxy evolution and trace the establishment of feedback back to the main event at cosmic noon.
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@article{arxiv.2311.07661,
title = {The evolution of galaxies and clusters at high spatial resolution with AXIS},
author = {H. R. Russell and L. A. Lopez and S. W. Allen and G. Chartas and P. P. Choudhury and R. A. Dupke and A. C. Fabian and A. M. Flores and K. Garofali and E. Hodges-Kluck and M. J. Koss and L. Lanz and B. D. Lehmer and J. -T. Li and W. P. Maksym and A. B. Mantz and M. McDonald and E. D. Miller and R. F. Mushotzky and Y. Qiu and C. S. Reynolds and F. Tombesi and P. Tozzi and A. Trindade-Falcao and S. A. Walker and K. -W. Wong and M. Yukita and C. Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07661},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
29 pages, 18 figures; this white paper is part of a series commissioned for the AXIS Probe mission concept