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We combine observations of spiral galaxies in the [CII] line at 158 micron, made with the Long Wavelength Spectrometer aboard ISO, with previous data from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory to study the origin of this line, which is the main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. Pierini , J. Lequeux , A. Boselli , K. J. Leech , H. J. Voelk

We use pair and environmental classifications of ~ 211,000 star-forming galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, along with a suite of merger simulations, to investigate the enhancement of star formation as a function of separation in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 David R. Patton , Paul Torrey , Sara L. Ellison , J. Trevor Mendel , Jillian M. Scudder

While most galaxies live in group environments where they undergo an accelerated evolution, the characteristics of their circumgalactic medium (CGM) remain uncertain. We present an analysis of the CGM of two galaxy groups in different…

We analyse the properties of circumgalactic gas around simulated galaxies in the redshift range z >= 3, utilising a new sample of cosmological zoom simulations. These simulations are intended to be representative of the observed samples of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Peter Mitchell , Jeremy Blaizot , Julien Devriendt , Taysun Kimm , Leo Michel-Dansac , Joakim Rosdahl , Adrianne Slyz

Galaxy halos appear to be missing a large fraction of their baryons, most probably hiding in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), a diffuse component within the dark matter halo that extends far from the inner regions of the galaxies. A…

We investigate the connection between galactic outflows and star formation using two independent data sets covering a sample of 22 galaxies between $1 \lesssim z \lesssim 1.5$. The HST WFC3/G141 grism provides low spectral resolution, high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Nikolaus Z. Prusinski , Dawn K. Erb , Crystal L. Martin

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

Hot ionized interstellar medium interlinks star formation and stellar feedback processes, redistributing energy, momentum, and material throughout galaxies. We use X-ray data from $Chandra$ to extract the hot gas emission from 78 of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-01 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

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…

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

Galaxy merger simulations have explored the behaviour of gas within the galactic disk, yet the dynamics of hot gas within the galaxy halo has been neglected. We report on the results of high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of colliding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Manodeep Sinha , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

We study galaxy pairs in the field selected from the 100 K public release of the 2dF galaxy redshift survey. Our analysis provides a well defined sample of 1258 galaxy pairs, a large database suitable for statistical studies of galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. G. Lambas , P. B. Tissera , M. Sol Alonso , Georgina Coldwell

The characterization of the large amount of gas residing in the galaxy halos, the so called circumgalactic medium (CGM), is crucial to understand galaxy evolution across cosmic time. We focus here on the the cool ($T\sim10^4$ K) phase of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Andrea Afruni , Filippo Fraternali , Gabriele Pezzulli

We explore the distribution of cool (~$10^4$K) gas around galaxies and its dependence on galaxy properties. By cross-correlating about 50,000 MgII absorbers with millions of sources from the SDSS (optical), WISE (IR), and GALEX (UV) surveys…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-10-13 Ting-Wen Lan , Brice Ménard , Guangtun Zhu

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

Understanding gas flows between galaxies and their surrounding circum-galactic medium (CGM) is crucial to unveil the mechanisms regulating galaxy evolution, especially in the early Universe. However, observations of the CGM around massive…

In this paper we present a comprehensive study on the properties of the interstellar medium in NGC~1222, a star-forming early-type merging galaxy that forms a triple system, using optical and far-infrared (FIR) spectroscopic, and multiband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-16 Jiamin Liu , Yinghe Zhao , Kai-Xing Lu , Jin-Ming Bai

We present an analysis of the molecular and atomic gas emission in the rest-frame far-infrared and sub-millimetre, from the lensed z=2.3 sub-millimetre galaxy SMM J2135-0102. We obtain very high signal-to-noise detections of 11 transitions…

In a series of two papers we present results of a new H-alpha imaging survey, aiming at the detection of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in halos of late-type spiral galaxies. We have investigated a sample of 74 nearby edge-on spirals,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joern Rossa , Ralf-Juergen Dettmar

We present narrow-band observations of the H$\alpha$ emission in a sample of 31 satellite orbiting isolated giant spiral galaxies. The sample studied spans the range $-19<M_B <-15$ mag. The H$\alpha$ emission was detected in all the spiral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. M. Gutierrez , M. S. Alonso , J. G. Funes , M. B. Ribeiro