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Cold, dense streams of gas are predicted to penetrate deeply into massive halos (> 10^12 Msun) at cosmic noon (z=4-2), fueling galaxies to sustain high star formation rates. We investigate the prevalence of such cold streams in TNG50 over…

Lenticular galaxies remain remarkably mysterious as a class. Observations to date have not led to any broad consensus about their origins, properties and evolution, though they are often thought to have formed in one big burst of star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gary A. Welch , Leslie J. Sage

We use a particle tracking analysis to study the origins of the circumgalactic medium (CGM), separating it into (1) accretion from the intergalactic medium (IGM), (2) wind from the central galaxy, and (3) gas ejected from other galaxies.…

Circumgalactic gas around massive galaxies generally has a volume-filling component -- an atmosphere -- with a temperature determined by the potential-well depth of the galaxy's halo. If the atmosphere is near hydrostatic equilibrium and is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-18 G. M. Voit , B. D. Wibking , D. Yaldiz

We present the first result in exploring the gaseous halo and galaxy correlation using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation data in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) and Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) field. We…

Studies of the molecular interstellar medium that fuels star formation and supermassive black hole growth in galaxies at cosmological distances have undergone tremendous progress over the past few years. Based on the detection of molecular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-10 Dominik A. Riechers

We use the hydrodynamic, cosmological EAGLE simulations to investigate how hot gas in haloes condenses to form and grow galaxies. We select haloes from the simulations that are actively cooling and study the temperature, distribution, and…

We present the first results from an on-going survey to characterize the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the massive high-redshift galaxies detected as submillimeter galaxies (SMGs). We constructed a parent sample of 163 SMG-QSO pairs with…

We investigate the properties of cold gas at $10^4~\rm K$ around star-forming galaxies at $z~\sim~1$ using Mg II spectra through radiative transfer modeling. We utilize a comprehensive dataset of 624 galaxies from the MAGG and MUDF…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Seok-Jun Chang , Rajeshwari Dutta , Max Gronke , Michele Fumagalli , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Matteo Fossati

We present the calculations of steady, spherical gas outflows from galaxies in an effort to understand the effects of the galaxy mass on the flow properties such as the size of the outflow regions, the efficiency of radiative cooling, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boqi Wang

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

We report new observations of the cool diffuse gas around 29, $2.3<z<6.3$ galaxies, using deep JWST/NIRCam slitless grism spectroscopy around the sightline to the quasar J0100+2802. The galaxies span a stellar mass range of $7.1 \leq \log…

While massive quiescent galaxies are known to be poor in atomic hydrogen (HI), their true HI content remains poorly constrained due to the limited sensitivity and morphological biases of existing surveys. We present deep HI observations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-20 Xiao Li , Cheng Li , Cheng Cheng , Houjun Mo , Jing Wang , Amélie Saintonge

The hot interstellar medium traces the stellar feedback and its role in regulating the eco-system of the Galaxy. I review recent progress in understanding the medium, based largely on X-ray absorption line spectroscopy, complemented by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-12 Q. Daniel Wang

We use observational measurements of thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects, as well as soft X-ray emission associated with galaxy groups to constrain the gas density and temperature in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) for dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Xuanyi Wu , Houjun Mo , Cheng Li , Seunghwan Lim

We investigate the cold and warm gas content, kinematics, and spatial distribution of six local massive elliptical galaxies to probe the origin of the multiphase gas in their atmospheres. We report new observations, including SOFIA [CII],…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-13 P. Temi , M. Gaspari , F. Brighenti , N. Werner , R. Grossova , M. Gitti , M. Sun , A. Amblard , A. Simionescu

In our current galaxy formation paradigm, high-redshift galaxies are predominantly fuelled by accretion of cool, metal-poor gas from the intergalactic medium. Hydrodynamical simulations predict that this material should be observable in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Neil H. M. Crighton , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska

In preparation for a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observing project using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS), the positions of all AGN targets having high-S/N far-UV G130M spectra were cross-correlated with a large catalog of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 John Stocke , Brian Keeney , Charles Danforth , Ben Oppenheimer , Cameron Pratt , Andreas Berlind

We report ALMA observations of the most massive (star forming) galaxy in the redshift range 3<z<4 within the whole GOODS-S field. We detect a large elongated structure of molecular gas around the massive primeval galaxy, traced by the…

Hot gaseous halos are predicted around all large galaxies and are critically important for our understanding of galaxy formation, but they have never been detected at distances beyond a few kpc around a spiral galaxy. We used the Chandra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Michael E. Anderson , Joel N. Bregman