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We explore the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of two simulated star-forming galaxies with luminosities L ~ 0.1 and 1 L* generated using the smooth particle hydrodynamic code GASOLINE. These simulations are part of the Making Galaxies In a…

Supernova driven winds are often invoked to remove chemically enriched gas from dwarf galaxies to match their low observed metallicities. In such shallow potential wells, outflows may produce massive amounts of enriched halo gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-29 Sean D. Johnson , Hsiao-Wen Chen , John S. Mulchaey , Joop Schaye , Lorrie A. Straka

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) provides the material needed for galaxy formation and influences galaxy evolution. The hot ($T>10^6K$) CGM is poorly detected around galaxies with stellar masses ($M_*$) lower than $3\times10^{11}M_\odot$ due…

While the concept of "clustering" primarily refers to galaxies, the fact is that galaxies can be neglected - at least in terms of mass - when considering the continuous competition between accretion and relaxation processes of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pierre

We examine the connection between the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and the quenching and morphological evolution of central galaxies in the EAGLE and IllustrisTNG simulations. The simulations yield very different median CGM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-18 Jonathan J. Davies , Robert A. Crain , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Joop Schaye

We develop a new method to constrain the physical conditions in the cool (~10^4 K) circumgalactic medium (CGM) from measurements of ionic column densities, by assuming that the cool CGM spans a large range of gas densities and that small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Jonathan Stern , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jessica K. Werk

In this review we discuss several aspects of Cosmic Voids. Voids are a major component of the large scale distribution of matter and galaxies in the Universe. They are of instrumental importance for understanding the emergence of the Cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rien van de Weygaert , Erwin Platen

Gas metallicity is a key quantity used to determine the physical conditions of gaseous clouds in a wide range of astronomical environments, including interstellar and intergalactic space. In particular, considerable effort in circumgalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Hsiao-Wen Chen , Sean D. Johnson , Fakhri S. Zahedy , Michael Rauch , John S. Mulchaey

Significant reservoirs of cool gas are observed in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding galaxies. The CGM is also found to contain substantial amounts of metals and dust, which require some transport mechanism. We consider AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-24 W. Ishibashi , A. C. Fabian

The recent availability of wideband receivers and high sensitivity instruments in the mm and submm wavelengths has opened the possibility of studying in detail the chemistry of the interstellar medium in extragalactic objects. Within the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 Sergio Martin

In dwarf galaxy models, outflows expel metal-enriched interstellar medium (ISM) into the circumgalactic medium (CGM) to reproduce their observed low metallicities, but measurements of dwarf CGM properties are scarce. We present a study of…

Galactic outflows play a major role in the evolution of galaxies and the intergalactic medium (IGM). The energy deposited into the interstellar medium by supernovae and active galactic nuclei can accelerate the gas past the escape velocity,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-06 Hugo Martel

We present the first detailed dissection of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of massive starburst galaxies at z > 2. Our target is a submillimeter galaxy (SMG) at z = 2.674 that has a star formation rate of 1200 $M_\odot$/yr and a molecular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-25 Hai Fu , Rui Xue , J. Xavier Prochaska , Alan Stockton , Sam Ponnada , Marie Wingyee Lau , Asantha Cooray , Desika Narayanan

Cosmic gas cycles in and out of galaxies, but outside of galaxies it is difficult to observe except for the absorption lines that circumgalactic clouds leave in the spectra of background quasars. Using photoionization modeling of those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 G. M. Voit , M. Donahue , F. Zahedy , H. -W. Chen , J. Werk , G. L. Bryan , B. W. O'Shea

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

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

Stars in globular clusters (GCs) lose a non negligible amount of mass during their post-main sequence evolution. This material is then expected to build up a substantial intra-cluster medium (ICM) within the GC. However, the observed gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 W. Chantereau , P. Biernacki , M. Martig , N. Bastian , M. Salaris , R. Teyssier

Dwarf galaxies are thought of as the building blocks of large galaxies such as our Milky Way. This paper presents new high-resolution hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies and their intergalactic medium with the \texttt{GIZMO} code.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-06 Pei-Cheng Tung , Ke-Jung Chen

Observations have argued that Milky Way (MW), Andromeda, and lower-mass galaxies exhibit extended soft X-ray diffuse halos to radii $R\gtrsim100\,$kpc in the circumgalactic medium (CGM). If interpreted as thermal emission, the shallow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-22 Philip F. Hopkins , Eliot Quataert , Sam B. Ponnada , Emily Silich

The last fifteen years have seen the discovery of new types of low-mass stellar systems that bridge the gap between the once well-separated regimes of galaxies and of star clusters. Whether such objects are considered galaxies depends also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-02 Matthias J. Frank