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The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a pivotal role in regulating gas flows around galaxies and thus shapes their evolution. However, the details of how galaxies and their CGM co-evolve remain poorly understood. We present a new…

We study the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of high-$z$ galaxies in the metal enrichment simulations presented in Pallottini et al. 2014. At $z=4$, we find that the simulated CGM gas density profiles are self-similar, once…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrea Pallottini , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara

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…

We examine the global HI properties of galaxies in quarter-billion particle cosmological simulations using Gadget-2, focusing on how galactic outflows impact HI content. We consider four outflow models, including a new one (ezw) motivated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Romeel Davé , Neal Katz , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

The circumgalactic medium (CGM), i.e. the gaseous haloes around galaxies, is both the reservoir of gas that fuels galaxy growth and the repository of gas expelled by galactic winds. Most cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations focus their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-12 Freeke van de Voort , Volker Springel , Nir Mandelker , Frank C. van den Bosch , Rüdiger Pakmor

The hot, X-ray-emitting phase of the circumgalactic medium of massive galaxies is believed to be the reservoir of baryons from which gas flows onto the central galaxy and into which feedback from AGN and stars inject mass, momentum, energy,…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is known to contain multiphase gas in various stages of evolution and interaction with the galaxy. In order to characterize its detailed behavior on short timescales, we use a subregion of the TNG100…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Daniel DeFelippis , Shy Genel , Greg L. Bryan

We examine the effects of galaxy outflows on the formation of dwarf galaxies in numerical simulations of the high-redshift Universe. Using a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic code, we conduct two detailed simulations of a (5.2 Mpc/h)^3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Robert J. Thacker , Marc Davis

We present a set of controlled hydrodynamical simulations to study the effects of strong galactic outflows on the density and temperature structures, and associated X-ray signatures, of extra-planar and circumgalactic gas. We consider three…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-10 Ranita Jana , Kartick C. Sarkar , Jonathan Stern , Amiel Sternberg

The resonantly scattered Lyman-$\alpha$ line illuminates the extended halos of neutral hydrogen in the circumgalactic medium of galaxies. We present integral field Keck Cosmic Web Imager observations of double-peaked, spatially extended…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-25 Dawn K. Erb , Zhihui Li , Charles C. Steidel , Yuguang Chen , Max Gronke , Allison L. Strom , Ryan F. Trainor , Gwen C. Rudie

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is a multi-phase, dynamic interface between galaxy and the intergalactic medium, providing crucial diagnostics of galaxy evolution. However, direct evidence for a hot (million-Kelvin) CGM around present-day…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Lin He , Zhiyuan Li

Absorption-line measurements of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) display a highly non-uniform distribution of lower ionization state species accompanied by more widespread higher ionization state material. This suggests that the CGM is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Edward Buie , Evan Scannapieco , G. Mark Voit

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is closely linked to galaxy formation and evolution, but difficult to characterize observationally and typically poorly resolved in cosmological simulations. We use spherically-symmetric, idealized,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Cassandra Lochhaas , Greg L. Bryan , Yuan Li , Miao Li , Drummond Fielding

Feedback from outflows driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) can affect the distribution and properties of the gaseous halos of galaxies. We study the hydrodynamics and non-thermal emission from the forward outflow shock produced by an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb

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

Coupling between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is critical to the interplay between radiative cooling and feedback heating in the atmospheres of the universe's most massive galaxies. This paper presents a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Deovrat Prasad , G. Mark Voit , Brian W. O'Shea

Absorbers in the spectrum of background objects probe the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies, but its physical properties remain unconstrained. We use the cosmological hydrodynamical simulation TNG50 to statistically trace the…

Galactic outflows commonly contain multiphase gas, and its physical origin requires explanation. Using the CGOLS (Cholla Galactic OutfLow Simulations) suite of high-resolution isolated galaxy models, we demonstrate the viability of rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-09 Evan E. Schneider , Brant E. Robertson , Todd A. Thompson

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

We investigate the relative importance of two galactic outflow suppression mechanisms : a) Cosmological infall of the intergalactic gas onto the galaxy, and b) the existence of a hot circumgalactic medium (CGM). Considering only radial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Priyanka Singh , Sandeep Rana , Jasjeet S. Bagla , Biman B. Nath