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Quasar absorption-line studies in the ultraviolet (UV) can uniquely probe the nature of the multiphase cool-warm (10^4 < T < 10^6 K) gas in and around galaxy clusters, promising to provide unprecedented insights into 1) interactions between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Iryna S. Butsky , Joseph N. Burchett , Daisuke Nagai , Michael Tremmel , Thomas R. Quinn , Jessica K. Werk

We measure thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) Effect in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $\approx$2.5 million $\rm M_{200}$=$\rm 10^{12-14}\,M_\odot$ WISE$\times$DESI galaxies out to $z$=1.2. We split the sample into quiescent (0.7 million)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Sanskriti Das , Nhut Truong , Yi-Kuan Chiang , Smita Mathur

The star formation rate in galaxies should be related to the fraction of gas that can attain densities large enough for gravitational collapse. In galaxies with a turbulent interstellar medium, this fraction is controlled by the effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Scalo , Anirban Biswas

We combine 126 new galaxy-O VI absorber pairs from the CGM$^2$ survey with 123 pairs drawn from the literature to examine the simultaneous dependence of the column density of O VI absorbers ($N_{\rm O VI}$) on galaxy stellar mass, star…

Dwarf galaxies are found to have lost most of their metals via feedback processes; however, there still lacks consistent assessment on the retention rate of metals in their circumgalactic medium (CGM). Here we investigate the metal content…

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

Early-type galaxies often contain a hot X-ray emitting interstellar medium (3-8E6 K) with an apparent radiative cooling time much less than a Hubble time. If unopposed by a heating mechanism, the gas will radiatively cool to temperatures <=…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joel N. Bregman , Eric D. Miller , Alex E. Athey , Jimmy A. Irwin

Galactic halos accrete material from the intergalactic medium (IGM) and part of this accretion is expected to be in the form of cool ($T\sim10^4$ K) gas. A signature of this process could reside in the detection of numerous clouds in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-12 Andrea Afruni , Gabriele Pezzulli , Filippo Fraternali , Asger Grønnow

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…

Using hydrodynamic simulations we compute the metal enrichment history of the intergalactic medium (IGM). We show that galactic superwind (GSW) feedback can transport metals to the IGM and that the properties of simulated metal absorbers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Renyue Cen , Nora Elisa Chisari

The hot component of the circum-galactic medium (CGM) around star forming galaxies is detected as diffuse X-ray emission. The X-ray spectra from the CGM depend on the temperature and metallicity of the emitting plasma, providing important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Aditi Vijayan , Miao Li

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

This paper presents a new sample of 19 unique galaxies and galaxy groups at $z\approx1$ from the CUBS program, which is designated as the CUBSz1 sample. In this CUBSz1 sample, nine galaxies or galaxy groups show absorption features, while…

The properties of warm-hot gas around $\sim L_{*}$ galaxies can be studied with absorption lines from highly ionized metals. We predict Ne VIII column densities from cosmological zoom-in simulations of halos with masses in $\sim 10^{12}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-02 Nastasha A. Wijers , Claude-André Faucher-Giguère , Jonathan Stern , Lindsey Byrne , Imran Sultan

We report on a systematic investigation of the cold and mildly ionized gaseous baryonic metal components of our Galaxy, through the analysis of high resolution Chandra and XMM-Newton spectra of two samples of Galactic and extragalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 F. Nicastro , F. Senatore , A. Gupta , M. Guainazzi , S. Mathur , Y. Krongold , M. Elvis , L. Piro

We consider evolution of metal-enriched gas exposed to a superposition of time-dependent radiation field of a nearby starburst galaxy and nearly invariant (on timescales 100 Myr) extragalactic ionization background. Within nonequilibrium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-06 E. O. Vasiliev , M. V. Ryabova , Yu. A. Shchekinov

We investigate the prospects for detecting and constraining density and temperature inhomogeneities in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) using absorption measurements of metal ions. Distributions in the gas thermal properties could arise from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-07 Yakov Faerman , Daniel R. Piacitelli , Matthew McQuinn , Jessica K. Werk

We study the temperature structure of the intergalactic medium (IGM) using a large cosmological N-body/SPH simulation. We employ a two-temperature model for the thermal evolution of the ionized gas, in which the relaxation process between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Naoki Yoshida , Steven Furlanetto , 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…

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