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While observations of molecular gas at cosmic noon and beyond have focused on the gas within galaxies (i.e., the interstellar medium; ISM), it is also crucial to study the molecular gas reservoirs surrounding each galaxy (i.e., in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 G. C. Jones , R. Maiolino , S. Carniani , C. Circosta , Y. Fudamoto , J. Scholtz

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

We present a sample of 22 massive galaxies with stellar masses $>10^{10} M_{\odot}$ at $3<z<4$ with deep H and K-band high resolution spectra (R=3500-3000) from Keck/MOSFIRE and VLT/KMOS near-infrared spectrographs. We find a large fraction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-24 M. Martínez-Marín , K. Glazebrook , T. Nanayakkara , C. Jacobs , I. Labbé , G. G. Kacprzak , C. Papovich , C. Schreiber

We investigate the process of rapid star formation quenching in a sample of 12 massive galaxies at intermediate redshift (z~0.6) that host high-velocity ionized gas outflows (v>1000 km/s). We conclude that these fast outflows are most…

Outflows of ionized gas driven by active galactic nuclei (AGN) may significantly impact the evolution of their host galaxies. However, determining the energetics of these outflows is difficult with spatially unresolved observations that are…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) around galaxies is believed to record various forms of galaxy feedback and contain a significant portion of the "missing baryons" of individual dark matter halos. However, clear observational evidence for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. Yao , Q. D. Wang , S. V. Penton , T. M. Tripp , J. M. Shull , J. T. Stocke

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

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies consists of a multiphase gas with components at very different temperatures, from $10^ {4}$ K to $10^ {7}$ K. One of the greatest puzzle about this medium is the presence of a large amount of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-01 Andrea Afruni , Filippo Fraternali , Gabriele Pezzulli

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) exhibit excess mid-infrared H$_2$ emission compared to star-forming galaxies, likely driven by outflows and shocks inferred from integrated spectra. We present optical IFU observations of the central 2\,kpc of…

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

The driving force behind outflows, often invoked to understand the correlation between the supermassive black holes powering active galactic nuclei (AGN) and their host galaxy properties, remains uncertain. We provide new insights into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Payel Nandi , C. S. Stalin , D. J. Saikia

Gamma and X-ray observatories have revealed spectacular structures in the emission of the tenuous hot gas surrounding the Milky Way (MW), known as the Fermi and eROSITA bubbles. Galaxy formation simulations suggest that MW-like bubbles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-29 Andrea Sacchi , Akos Bogdan , Nhut Truong

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 present measurements of galactic outflow rates from the EAGLE suite of cosmological simulations. We find that gas is removed from the interstellar medium (ISM) of central galaxies with a dimensionless mass loading factor that scales…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-15 Peter D. Mitchell , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain

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

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a crucial role in galaxy evolution as it fuels star formation, retains metals ejected from the galaxies, and hosts gas flows in and out of galaxies. For Milky Way-type and more massive galaxies, the…

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…

We report new observations of circumgalactic gas in the halos of early type galaxies obtained by the COS-Halos Survey with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. We find that detections of HI surrounding early…

We use cosmological hydrodynamical simulations to examine the physical properties of the gas in the circumgalactic media (CGM) of star-forming galaxies as a function of angular orientation. We utilise TNG50 of the IllustrisTNG project, as…

The pervasive presence of warm gas in galaxy halos suggests that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase in its ionization structure and complex in its kinematics. Some recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations predict…