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I present a suite of three-dimensional simulations of the evolution of initially-hot material ejected by starburst-driven galaxy outflows. The simulations are conducted in a comoving frame that moves with the material, tracking atomic/ionic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Evan Scannapieco

Galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, contain vast amounts of dark matter, galaxies, and hot ionised gas known as the intracluster medium (ICM). In relaxed cluster cores, the ICM appears to cool…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 XRISM collaboration

We investigate the history of galactic feedback and chemical enrichment within a sample of 15 X-ray bright groups of galaxies, on the basis of the inferred Fe and Si distributions in the hot gas and the associated metal masses produced by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jesper Rasmussen , Trevor J. Ponman

We present the analysis of a local (z = 0.04 - 0.2) sample of 31 galaxy clusters with the aim of measuring the density of the X-ray emitting gas in cluster outskirts. We compare our results with numerical simulations to set constraints on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 D. Eckert , F. Vazza , S. Ettori , S. Molendi , D. Nagai , E. T. Lau , M. Roncarelli , M. Rossetti , S. L. Snowden , F. Gastaldello

We utilize deep Chandra X-ray Observatory imaging and spectra of M82, the prototype of a starbursting galaxy with a multiphase wind, to map the hot plasma properties along the minor axis of the galaxy. We extract spectra from 11 regions up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 Laura A. Lopez , Smita Mathur , Dustin D. Nguyen , Todd A. Thompson , Grace M. Olivier

We report on a sample of 51 nearby, star-forming galaxies observed with the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. We calculate Si II kinematics and densities arising from warm gas entrained in galactic outflows. We use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 John Chisholm , Christina A. Tremonti , Claus Leitherer , Yanmei Chen , Aida Wofford , Britt Lundgren

We report ALMA Early Science CO(1-0) and CO(3-2) observations of the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in Abell 1664. The BCG contains 1.1x10^{10} solar masses of molecular gas divided roughly equally between two distinct velocity systems: one…

We present a study of the distribution of AGN in clusters of galaxies with a uniformly selected, spectroscopically complete sample of 35 AGN in eight clusters at z = 0.06 to 0.31. We find that the 12 AGN with L_X > 10^42 erg/s in galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Paul Martini , John S. Mulchaey , Daniel D. Kelson

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) drive powerful, multiphase outflows that are thought to play a key role in galaxy evolution. The hot, shocked phase of these outflows ($T \gtrsim 10^{6} \rm{\ K}$) is expected to dominate the energy content, but…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-20 Samuel Ruthven Ward , Tiago Costa , Chris M. Harrison , Vincenzo Mainieri

Galactic outflows of molecular gas are a common occurrence in galaxies and may represent a mechanism by which galaxies self-regulate their growth, redistributing gas that could otherwise have formed stars. We previously presented the first…

We present the spatially resolved measurements of a cool galactic outflow in the gravitationally lensed galaxy RCS0327 at $z \approx 1.703$ using VLT/MUSE IFU observations. We probe the cool outflowing gas, traced by blueshifted Mg II and…

We have analysed the growth of Brightest Group Galaxies and Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BGGs/BCGs) over the last 3 billion years using a large sample of 883 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly Survey. By comparing the stellar mass of…

We present a study of molecular outflows using high-resolution mapping of the CO (1-0) line emission toward eight relatively nearby 6.7 GHz methanol masers, which are associated with massive star forming regions. Outflows were detected in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Xu , Z. -Q. Shen , J. Yang , X. W. Zheng , A. Miyazaki , K. Sunada , H. J. Ma , J. J. Li , J. X. Sun , C. C. Pei

Making use of both MUSE observations of 85 galaxies from the survey GASP (GAs Stripping Phenomena in galaxies with MUSE) and a large sample from MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory survey) we investigate the…

The chemical enrichment of X-ray-emitting hot atmospheres has hitherto been primarily studied in galaxy clusters. These studies revealed relative abundances of heavy elements that are remarkably similar to Solar. Here, we present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-10 Sinancan Kara , Tomáš Plšek , Klaudia Protušová , Jean-Paul Breuer , Norbert Werner , François Mernier , E. Nihal Ercan

We examine the optical emission line properties of Brightest Cluster Galaxies (BCGs) selected from two large, homogeneous datasets. The first is the X-ray selected National Optical Astronomy Observatory Fundamental Plane Survey (NFPS), and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. O. V. Edwards , Michael J. Hudson , Michael L. Balogh , Russell J. Smith

A hot plasma is the dominant phase of the interstellar medium of early-type galaxies. Its origin can reside in stellar mass losses, residual gas from the formation epoch, and accretion from outside of the galaxies. Its evolution is linked…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-25 S. Pellegrini , Z. Gan , J. P. Ostriker , L. Ciotti

We present an 82 ksec Chandra ACIS-I observation of a large-scale hierarchical complex, which consists of various clusters/groups of galaxies and low-surface brightness X-ray emission at z = 0.247. This high-resolution {\sl Chandra}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Q. Daniel Wang , Frazer Owen , Michael Ledlow

Fast and energetic winds are invoked by galaxy formation models as essential processes in the evolution of galaxies. These outflows can be powered either by star-formation and/or AGN activity, but the relative dominance of the two…

We use a sample of 27 GRBs at redshift $z=2-6$ to probe the outflows in their respective host galaxies ($\mathrm{log(M_*/M_{\odot})}~\sim~9-11$) and search for possible relations between the outflow properties and those of the host galaxies…