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(Modified) We study the abundance of silicon in the intergalactic medium by analyzing the statistics of SiIV, CIV, and HI pixel optical depths in a sample of 19 high-quality quasar absorption spectra spanning redshifts z ~ 2 - 4, which we…

We surveyed the HST UV spectra of 49 low-redshift quasars for z < 1 CIV candidates, relying solely on the characteristic wavelength separation of the doublet. After consideration of the defining traits of CIV doublets (e.g., consistent line…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-06 Kathy L. Cooksey , Christopher Thom , J. Xavier Prochaska , Hsiao-Wen Chen

New measurements of the z~6 intergalactic CIV abundance are presented, using moderate resolution IR spectra of two QSOs taken with GNIRS on Gemini South. These data were systematically searched for high redshift CIV absorption lines, using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert A. Simcoe

We have analyzed the properties of metals in the high redshift intergalactic medium using a novel objective pixel optical depth technique on a sample of extremely high signal-to-noise Keck HIRES and ESI spectra of 26 quasars between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Antoinette Songaila

We present measurements of the cross-correlation of the triply-ionized carbon (CIV) forest with quasars using Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 14. The study exploits a large sample of new quasars from the first two years of…

We use idealized 3D hydrodynamic simulations to study the dynamics and thermal structure of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). Our simulations quantify the role of cooling, stellar feedback driven galactic winds and cosmological gas accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Drummond Fielding , Eliot Quataert , Michael McCourt , Todd A. Thompson

We have investigated the distribution and evolution of ~3100 intergalactic HI absorbers with HI column densities log N(HI) = [12.75, 17.0] at 1.9 < z < 3.2, using 18 high resolution, high S/N quasar spectra obtained from the ESO VLT/UVES…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Tae-Sun Kim , Adrian M. Partl , Robert F. Carswell , Volker Müller

We present a theoretical study of intergalactic metal absorption lines imprinted in the spectra of distant quasars during and after the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We use high resolution hydrodynamical simulations at high redshift ($4…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-06 L. A. Garcia , E. Tescari , E. V. Ryan-Weber , J. S. B. Wyithe

Gaussian analysis of new, high-angular-resolution interstellar 21-cm neutral hydrogen emission profile structure more clearly reveals the presence of the previously reported signature of the critical ionization velocity ({\it CIV}) of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-14 Gerrit L. Verschuur , Joan T. Schmelz , Mahboubeh Asgari-Targhi

We analyse synthetic $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, and [CII] emission maps of simulated molecular clouds of the SILCC-Zoom project, which include an on-the-fly evolution of H$_2$, CO, and C$^+$. We use simulations of hydrodynamical and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-12 S. Ebagezio , D. Seifried , S. Walch , P. C. Nürnberger , T. E. Rathjen , T. Naab

We examine the properties of the low-redshift circumgalactic medium (CGM) around star-forming and quenched galaxies in the Simba cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, focusing on comparing HI and metal line absorption to observations from…

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Observations of UV metal absorption lines have provided insight into the structure and composition of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around galaxies. We compare these observations with the low-redshift ($z \leq 0.3$) CGM around dwarf…

Intervening CIV absorbers are key tracers of metal-enriched gas in galaxy halos over cosmic time. Previous studies suggest that the CIV cosmic mass density ($\Omega_{\rm CIV}$) decreases slowly over 1.5 $\lesssim z\lesssim$ 5 before…

We have obtained an exceptionally high S/N, high resolution spectrum of the gravitationally lensed quasar Q1422+231 in order to investigate the metal enrichment of the IGM. A column density distribution function (CDDF) is determined for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Sara L. Ellison , Antoinette Songaila , Joop Schaye , Max Pettini

We study the physical conditions of the circum-galactic medium (CGM) around z=0.25 galaxies as traced by HI and metal line absorption, using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that include galactic outflows. Using lines of sight targeted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Amanda Brady Ford , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Romeel Davé , Neal Katz , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

We present a comparison of galaxy atomic and molecular gas properties in three recent cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, Simba, EAGLE, and Illustris-TNG, versus observations from $z\sim 0-2$. These simulations all rely on similar…

We use HDGAS hydrodynamic simulations to study the impact of active galactic nucleus (AGN) feedback on the conversion of atomic-gas to molecular-gas within the circumnuclear-disc (CND) of a typical AGN-dominated galaxy. The comparison of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Mojtaba Raouf , Serena Viti , Reihaneh Karimi , Alexander J. Richings

We present models of low- and high-ionization metal-line absorbers (O I, C II, C IV and Mg II) during the end of the reionization epoch, at z ~ 6. Using four cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with different feedback schemes (including…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 Laura C. Keating , Ewald Puchwein , Martin G. Haehnelt , Simeon Bird , James S. Bolton

Absorption-line measurements of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) display a highly non-uniform distribution of lower ionization state species accompanied by more widespread higher ionization state material. This suggests that the CGM is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Edward Buie , Evan Scannapieco , G. Mark Voit

In this work, we investigate the abundance and distribution of metals in the intergalactic medium (IGM) at $\langle z \rangle \simeq 2.8$ through the analysis of an ultra-high signal-to-noise ratio UVES spectrum of the quasar HE0940-1050.…