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We explore the multiphase structure of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) probed by synthetic spectra through a cosmological zoom-in galaxy formation simulation. We employ a Bayesian method for modelling a combination of absorption lines to…

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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…

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We explore the circumgalactic metal content traced by commonly observed low ion absorbers, including C II, Si II, Si III, Si IV, and Mg II. We use a set of cosmological hydrodynamical zoom simulations run with the EAGLE model and including…

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In this study we explore the complex multi-phase gas of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies. We propose and implement a novel, super-Lagrangian 'CGM zoom' scheme in the moving-mesh code AREPO, which focuses more resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Joshua Suresh , Dylan Nelson , Shy Genel , Kate Rubin , Lars Hernquist

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

The pervasive presence of warm gas in galaxy halos suggests that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase in its ionization structure and complex in its kinematics. Some recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations predict…

Simulating the small-scale features and dynamics of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is computationally challenging due to its large volume, low densities, multiphase structure, and chaotic environmental effects. Traditional mass-based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Scott Lucchini , Cecilia Abramson , Cameron Hummels , Charlie Conroy , Lars Hernquist , Aaron Smith

We study the dependence of the physical and observable properties of the CGM on its halo mass. We analyse 22 simulations from the Auriga suite of high resolution cosmological `zoom-in' simulations at $z=0$ with halo masses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-10 Andrew W. S. Cook , Freeke van de Voort , Rüdiger Pakmor , Robert J. J. Grand

Absorption line studies are essential to understanding the origin, nature, and impact of starburst-driven galactic outflows. Such studies have revealed a multiphase medium with a number of poorly-understood features leading to a need to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 J'Neil Cottle , Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Bruggen

Galaxies are surrounded by massive gas reservoirs (i.e. the circumgalactic medium; CGM) which play a key role in their evolution. The properties of the CGM, which are dependent on a variety of internal and environmental factors, are often…

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)…

Galaxy evolution is driven by star formation and stellar feedback on scales unresolved by current high-resolution cosmological simulations, requiring robust subgrid models. However, these models remain degenerate, often calibrated primarily…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Maxime Rey , Jérémy Blaizot , Taysun Kimm , Joakim Rosdahl , Léo Michel-Dansac , Valentin Mauerhofer

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of nearby star-forming galaxies show clear indications of \ion{O}{6} absorption accompanied by little to no \ion{N}{5} absorption. This unusual spectral signature, accompanied by absorption from lower…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-17 Edward Buie , William Gray , Evan Scannapieco

Observational evidence shows that low-redshift galaxies are surrounded by extended haloes of multiphase gas, the so-called 'circumgalactic medium' (CGM). To study the survival of relatively cool gas (T < 10^5 K) in the CGM, we performed a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 L. Armillotta , F. Fraternali , J. K. Werk , J. X. Prochaska , F. Marinacci

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) in $\gtrsim 10^{12}$ $\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ halos is dominated by a hot phase ($T \gtrsim 10^{6}$ K). While many models exist for the hot gas structure, there is as yet no consensus. We compare cooling flow…

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 use the EAGLE (Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments) cosmological simulation to study the distribution of baryons, and far-ultraviolet (O VI), extreme-ultraviolet (Ne VIII) and X-ray (O VII, O VIII, Ne IX, and Fe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-07 Nastasha A. Wijers , Joop Schaye , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer

We present new high-precision measurements of the opacity of the intergalactic and circumgalactic medium (IGM, CGM) at <z>=2.4. Using Voigt profile fits to the full Lyman alpha and Lyman beta forests in 15 high-resolution high-S/N spectra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gwen C. Rudie , Charles C. Steidel , Alice E. Shapley , Max Pettini

A systematic comparison of the models of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and their observables is crucial to understanding the predictive power of the models and constraining physical processes that affect the thermodynamics of CGM. This…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-10 Priyanka Singh , Erwin T. Lau , Yakov Faerman , Jonathan Stern , Daisuke Nagai

Widespread, high altitude, diffuse ionized gas with scale heights of around a kiloparsec is observed in the Milky Way and other star forming galaxies. Numerical radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of a supernova-driven turbulent…