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Gas flows in and out of galaxies through their circumgalactic medium (CGM) are poorly constrained and direct observations of this faint, diffuse medium remain challenging. We use a sample of five $z$ $\sim$ 1-2 galaxy counterparts to Damped…

Our knowledge of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is mostly based on quasar absorption-line measurements. These have uncovered a multiphase medium that is likely highly turbulent, but constraints of this turbulence are limited to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-24 Brad Koplitz , Edward Buie , Evan Scannapieco

Simulations predict that circumgalactic hydrogen gas surrounding massive ($M_{\rm{halo}}^{z=1}=10^{12}-10^{13}\ M_{\odot}$) galaxies at $z\sim4$ may be predominantly neutral, and could produce damped Ly$\alpha$ absorbers (DLAs) along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 Alon Gurman , Amiel Sternberg , Shmuel Bialy , Rachel K. Cochrane , Jonathan Stern

We explore the multiphase structure of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) probed by synthetic spectra through a cosmological zoom-in galaxy formation simulation. We employ a Bayesian method for modelling a combination of absorption lines to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-11 Cameron Liang , Andrey Kravtsov , Oscar Agertz

We investigate models of self-consistent chemical enrichment of the intergalactic medium (IGM) from z=6 to 1.5, based on hydrodynamic simulations of structure formation that incorporate galactic outflows. Our main result is that outflow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-21 Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Romeel Davé

Understanding how galaxies interact with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) requires determining how galaxies morphological and stellar properties correlate with their CGM properties. We report an analysis of 66 well-imaged galaxies detected…

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

Observations of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) often display coincident absorption from species with widely varying ionization states, providing direct evidence for complex, multiphase interactions. Motivated by these measurements, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Lisiyuan Yang , Neal Katz , Evan Scannapieco , Marcus Brüggen

Models of galaxy formation in a CDM universe predict that massive galaxies are surrounded by a hot, quasi-hydrostatic circumgalactic corona of slowly cooling gas, predominantly accreted from the IGM. This prediction is borne out by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Robert A. Crain , Ian G. McCarthy , Joop Schaye , Carlos S. Frenk , Tom Theuns

We used adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamic cosmological simulations of a $z=1$ Milky Way-type galaxy and a $z=0$ Dwarf galaxy and generated synthetic quasar absorption-line spectra of their circumgalactic medium (CGM). Our goal is to…

The distribution of gas and metals in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a critical role in how galaxies evolve. The MUSE-ALMA Halos survey combines MUSE, ALMA and HST observations to constrain the properties of the multi-phase gas in…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the diffuse gas surrounding a galaxy's halo, and it plays a vital role in the galactic baryon cycle. However, its mass distribution across the virial phase and the cooler, denser atomic phase, remains…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-04 Rajsekhar Mohapatra , Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma

With the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE), it is now possible to detect spatially extended Lyman alpha emission from individual faint (M_UV ~ -18) galaxies at redshifts, 3 < z < 6, tracing gas out to circum-galactic scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-13 Peter Mitchell , Jérémy Blaizot , Corentin Cadiou , Yohan Dubois , Thibault Garel , Joakim Rosdahl

We study the internal structure of the Circum-Galactic Medium (CGM), using 29 spectra of 13 gravitationally lensed quasars with image separation angles of a few arcseconds, which correspond to 100 pc to 10 kpc in physical distances. After…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-27 Suzuka Koyamada , Toru Misawa , Naohisa Inada , Masamune Oguri , Nobunari Kashikawa , Katsuya Okoshi

We present a UV absorption-line analysis of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Sextans B, a dwarf irregular galaxy at 1.3 Mpc distance on the outer frontier of the Local Group. Using HST/COS spectroscopy of two AGN sightlines passing…

We investigate the geometric distribution of gas metallicities in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around $47$, $z<0.7$ galaxies from the "Multiphase Galaxy Halos" Survey. Using a combination of quasar spectra from HST/COS and from…

Determining the clumpiness of matter around galaxies is pivotal to a full understanding of the spatially inhomogeneous, multi-phase gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM). We combine high spatially resolved 3D observations with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 Ramona Augustin , Céline Péroux , Aleksandra Hamanowicz , Varsha Kulkarni , Hadi Rahmani , Anita Zanella

We report on observations made with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) using background QSOs to probe the circum-galactic medium (CGM) around 17 low-redshift galaxies that are undergoing or have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Timothy Heckman , Sanchayeeta Borthakur , Vivienne Wild , David Schiminovich , Rongmon Bordoloi

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) contains information on gas flows around galaxies, such as accretion and supernova-driven winds, which are difficult to constrain from observations alone. Here, we use the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological…

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