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We use HI absorption measurements to constrain the amount of cool ($\approx 10^4$ K), photoionized gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of dwarf galaxies with $M_* = 10^{6.5-9.5}~M_\odot$ in the nearby Universe ($z<0.3$). We show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Yakov Faerman , Yong Zheng , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

We analyze the physical properties of gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of 132 Milky Way (MW)-like central galaxies at $z=0$ from the cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical simulation TNG50, part of the IllustrisTNG project. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

We study the properties of magnetic fields in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $z<1$ galaxies by correlating Faraday rotation measures of $\sim 1,000$ high-redshift radio sources with the foreground galaxy number density estimated from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-24 Ting-Wen Lan , J. Xavier Prochaska

We present an analysis of the physical and dynamical states of two sets of EAGLE zoom simulations of galaxy haloes, one at high redshift ($z=2-3$) and the other at low redshift ($z=0$), with masses of $\approx 10^{12} M_{\odot}$. Our focus…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-21 Ezra Huscher , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Alice Lonardi , Robert A. Crain , Alexander J. Richings , Joop Schaye

The recent detection of optical emission lines from the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in combined, large samples of low-redshift, normal galaxy spectra hints at the potential to map the cool ($\sim$ 10$^4$ K) CGM in individual, representative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Huanian Zhang , Dennis Zaritsky

We present the equivalent width and column density measurements for low and intermediate ionization states of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding 44 low-z, L ~ L* galaxies drawn from the COS-Halos survey. These measurements are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jessica Werk , J. Xavier Prochaska , Christopher Thom , Jason Tumlinson , Todd Tripp , John O'Meara , Molly Peeples

The hot component of the circum-galactic medium (CGM) around star forming galaxies is detected as diffuse X-ray emission. The X-ray spectra from the CGM depend on the temperature and metallicity of the emitting plasma, providing important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Aditi Vijayan , Miao Li

The equivalent widths of MgII absorption in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) trace the global star formation rate up to $z<6$, are larger for star-forming galaxies than passively-evolving galaxies, and decrease with increasing distance from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Nikole M. Nielsen , Christopher W. Churchill , Glenn G. Kacprzak , Michael T. Murphy , Jessica L. Evans

Determining the spatial distribution and intrinsic physical properties of neutral hydrogen on cosmological scales is one of the key goals of next-generation radio surveys. We use the EAGLE galaxy formation simulations to assess the…

Over the past decade, Lyman-alpha and metal line absorption observations have established the ubiquity of a gas-rich circumgalactic medium (CGM) around star-forming galaxies at z~0.2 potentially tracing half of the missing baryonic mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-19 D. J. Pisano , A. Fox , D. French , J. C. Howk , N. Lehner , F. J. Lockman , K. Jones

Observations of quasar absorption line systems reveal that the z=3 intergalactic medium (IGM) is polluted by heavy elements down to HI optical depths tau_HI<<10. What is not yet clear, however, is what fraction of the volume needs to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. M. Booth , Joop Schaye , J. D. Delgado , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

(Abridged) We explore new observationally-constrained sub-resolution models of galactic outflows and investigate their impact on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) over redshifts z = 2 - 4. We perform cosmological hydrodynamic simulations,…

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

This paper presents a systematic study of the photoionization and thermodynamic properties of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) as traced by rest-frame ultraviolet absorption lines around 26 galaxies at redshift $z\lesssim1$. The study…

The observed high covering fractions of neutral hydrogen (HI) with column densities above $\sim 10^{17} \rm{cm}^{-2}$ around Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBGs) and bright quasars at redshifts z ~ 2-3 has been identified as a challenge for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-25 Alireza Rahmati , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain , Michelle Furlong , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns

Ubiquitous detections of cold/warm gas around galaxies indicate that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase and dynamic. Recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations have generally underproduced the column density of cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Cameron J. Liang , Ian S. Remming

We study the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a z=0.54 simulated dwarf galaxy using hydroART simulations. We present our analysis methods, which emulate observations, including objective absorption line detection, apparent optical depth (AOD)…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) encodes signatures of the galaxy-formation process, including the interaction of galactic outflows driven by stellar and supermassive black hole (SMBH) feedback with the gaseous halo. Moving beyond…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-16 Nhut Truong , Annalisa Pillepich , Dylan Nelson , Norbert Werner , Lars Hernquist

Galaxy evolution is thought to be driven in large part by the flow of gas between galaxies and the circumgalactic medium (CGM), a halo of metal-enriched gas extending out to $\gtrsim100$ kpc from each galaxy. Studying the spatial structure…

Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy evolution are increasingly able to produce realistic galaxies, but the largest hurdle remaining is in constructing subgrid models that accurately describe the behavior of stellar feedback.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Cameron Hummels , Greg Bryan , Britton Smith , Matthew Turk