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The CIII] and CIV rest-frame UV emission lines are powerful probes of the ionizations states of galaxies. They have furthermore been suggested as alternatives for spectroscopic redshift confirmation of objects at the epoch of reionization…

We investigate the observable effects of feedback from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) on non-thermal components of the intracluster medium (ICM). We have modelled feedback from AGN in cosmological simulations with the adaptive mesh refinement…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 F. Vazza , M. Brueggen , C. Gheller

Energy and momentum feedback from stars is a key element of models for galaxy formation and interstellar medium dynamics, but resolving the relevant length scales to directly include this feedback remain out of reach of current-generation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Yvonne A. Fichtner , Jonathan Mackey , Luca Grassitelli , Emilio Romano-Díaz , Cristiano Porciani

Using reconstructed initial conditions in the SDSS survey volume, we carry out constrained hydrodynamic simulations in three regions representing different types of the cosmic web: the Coma cluster of galaxies; the SDSS great wall; and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Renjie Li , Huiyuan Wang , H. J. Mo , Shuiyao Huang , Neal Katz , Xiong Luo , Weiguang Cui , Hao Li , Xiaohu Yang , Ning Jiang , Yuning Zhang

We analyze circumgalactic medium (CGM) in a suite of high-resolution cosmological re-simulations of a Milky-Way size galaxy and show that CGM properties are quite sensitive to details of star formation--feedback loop modelling. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Cameron J. Liang , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Oscar Agertz

The formation of structure in the Universe at large scales is dominated by gravity, with baryonic physics becoming significant at $\sim{\rm Mpc}$ scales. To capture the impact of baryonic physics, cosmological simulations must model gas…

Using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we measured the abundances of six ions (C III, C IV, Si III, Si IV, N V, O VI) in the low-redshift (z < 0.4) intergalactic medium and explored C and Si ionization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Michael Shull , Charles. W. Danforth , Evan M. Tilton

In Keck HIRES spectra of 9 QSOs we identify a sample of 908 CIV absorber components in 188 systems outside the Lyman forest in the redshift range 1.6 < z < 4.4, with related lines of SiIV, CII, SiII and NV. The properties of the CIV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alec Boksenberg , Wallace L. W. Sargent , Michael Rauch

We use high spectral resolution (R=45000) and high signal-to-noise ratio (S/N \~ 35-70 per pixel) spectra of 19 high-redshift (2.1<z_em<3.2) quasars to investigate the metal content of the low-density intergalactic medium using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bastien Aracil , Patrick Petitjean , Christophe Pichon , Jacqueline Bergeron

We consider a model of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in which feedback maintains a constant ratio of cooling time to freefall time throughout the halo, so that the entire CGM is marginally unstable to multiphase condensation. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-15 Manami Roy , Biman B. Nath , G. M. Voit

Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) feedback plays a critical role in galaxy formation and evolution. AGN-driven winds can significantly influence their host galaxies, although the details of their impact remain unclear. In this study, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-16 Jinning Liang , Cedric G. Lacey , Filip Huško , Evgenii Chaikin , Sownak Bose

The interplay between radiative cooling of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and feedback heating governs the evolution of the universe's most massive galaxies. This paper presents simulations of feedback processes in massive galaxies showing…

In hierarchical cosmogonies at redshift three the matter content of a typical present-day galaxy is dispersed over several individual clumps embedded in sheet-like structures, often aligned along filaments. We have used hydrodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael Rauch , Martin G. Haehnelt , Matthias Steinmetz

The large vertical scale heights of the diffuse ionised gas (DIG) in disc galaxies are challenging to model, as hydrodynamical models including only thermal feedback seem to be unable to support gas at these heights. In this paper, we use a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Bert Vandenbroucke , Kenneth Wood , Philipp Girichidis , Alex Hill , Thomas Peters

The hot ($>10^6$ K) phase of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains a large fraction of baryons in galaxies. It also retains signatures of the processes that shaped the galaxies, such as feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-08 Urmila Chadayammuri , Akos Bogdan , Benjamin Oppenheimer , Ralph Kraft , William Forman , Christine Jones

To investigate the evolution of dust in a cosmological volume, we perform hydrodynamic simulations, in which the enrichment of metals and dust is treated self-consistently with star formation and stellar feedback. We consider dust evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-24 Shohei Aoyama , Kuan-Chou Hou , Hiroyuki Hirashita , Kentaro Nagamine , Ikkoh Shimizu

We numerically investigate the evolution of compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) passing through a hot, tenuous gas representing the highly-ionized circumgalactic medium (CGM) by applying the adaptive-mesh refinement code FLASH. The model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Bastian Sander , Gerhard Hensler

We study the multi-phase circumgalactic medium (CGM) of emission line galaxies (ELGs) at $z\sim1.5$, traced by MgII$\lambda2796$, $\lambda2803$ and CIV$\lambda1548$, $\lambda1550$ absorption lines, using approximately 7,000 ELG-quasar pairs…

We present hydrodynamic simulations of the interstellar medium (ISM) within the circumnuclear disk (CND) of a typical AGN-dominated galaxy influenced by mechanical feedback from an active galactic nucleus(AGN). The simulations are coupled…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a vital role in galaxy evolution, however, studying the emission from CGM is challenging due to its low surface brightness and the complexities involved in interpreting resonant lines such as…