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(Abridged) We recently found that the halo of the Milky Way contains a large reservoir of warm-hot gas that contains a large fraction of the missing baryons from the Galaxy. The average physical properties of this circumgalactic medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Gupta , S. Mathur , M. Galeazzi , Y. Krongold

For the low density filamentary and sheet-like structures in the warm ($\sim 10^4$ to $\sim 10^6$ K) IGM predicted by numerical simulations the resonant line scattering of X-ray background (XRB) photons by He and H-like ions of heavy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Churazov , M. Haehnelt , O. Kotov , R. Sunyaev

We constrain the cosmic ray (CR) population in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of Milky Way by comparing the observations of absorption lines of OVIII ion with predictions from analytical models of CGM : precipitation (PP) and isothermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Manami Roy , Biman B. Nath

We study the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) distortion of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR) from extensive circumgalactic gas (CGM) in massive galactic halos. Recent observations have shown that galactic halos contain a large amount…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Priyanka Singh , Biman B. Nath , Subhabrata Majumdar , Joseph Silk

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

Observations of UV metal absorption lines have provided insight into the structure and composition of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) around galaxies. We compare these observations with the low-redshift ($z \leq 0.3$) CGM around dwarf…

We present for the first time predictions for UV line emission of intergalactic and circumgalactic gas from Adaptive Mesh Resolution (AMR) Large Scale Structure (LSS) simulations at redshifts 0.3<z<1.2, with specific emphasis on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Frank , Y. Rasera , D. Vibert , B. Milliard , A. Popping , J. Blaizot , S. Courty , J. M. Deharveng , C. Peroux , R. Teyssier , C. D. Martin

Cosmological hydrodynamic simulations predict the physical state of baryons in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), which can be directly tested via quasar absorption line observations. We use high resolution "zoom-in" simulations of 21…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michele Fumagalli , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska , Daniel Kasen , Avishai Dekel , Daniel Ceverino , Joel Primack

We report the small-scale spatial variation in cool ($T\sim 10^4 K$) Mg II absorption detected in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a star-forming galaxy at $z\approx 0.8$. The CGM of this galaxy is probed by a spatially extended bright…

We present CloudFlex, a new open-source tool for predicting the absorption-line signatures of cool gas in galaxy halos with complex small-scale structure. Motivated by analyses of cool material in hydrodynamical simulations of turbulent,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-13 Cameron B. Hummels , Kate H. R. Rubin , Evan E. Schneider , Drummond B. Fielding

If the Galaxy contains ~10^{11}M_sol in cold gas clouds of ~Jovian mass and \~AU size, these clouds will act as converging lenses for optical light, magnifying background stars at a detectable rate. The resulting light curves can resemble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 B. T. Draine

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of nearby star-forming galaxies shows clear indications of OVI absorption accompanied by little to no detectable NV absorption. This unusual spectral signature, accompanied by highly non-uniform absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-01 Edward Buie , William J. Gray , Evan Scannapieco , Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh

In this paper, we investigate the influence of the plasma surrounding the gravitational lens on the effect of microlensing. In presence of plasma around the lens, the deflection angle is determined by both the gravitational field of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-01 Oleg Yu. Tsupko , Gennady S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

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…

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of star-forming dwarf galaxies plays a key role in regulating the galactic baryonic cycle. We investigate how susceptible the CGM of dwarf satellite galaxies is to ram pressure stripping (RPS) in Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-10 Jingyao Zhu , Stephanie Tonnesen , Greg L. Bryan , Mary E. Putman

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

In our current galaxy formation paradigm, high-redshift galaxies are predominantly fuelled by accretion of cool, metal-poor gas from the intergalactic medium. Hydrodynamical simulations predict that this material should be observable in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Neil H. M. Crighton , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska

We use idealized 3D hydrodynamic simulations to study the dynamics and thermal structure of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). Our simulations quantify the role of cooling, stellar feedback driven galactic winds and cosmological gas accretion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Drummond Fielding , Eliot Quataert , Michael McCourt , Todd A. Thompson

Aims: Stars twinkle because their light propagates through the atmosphere. The same phenomenon is expected at a longer time scale when the light of remote stars crosses an interstellar molecular cloud, but it has never been observed at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-24 F. Habibi , Marc Moniez , R. Ansari , S. Rahvar

We assess the metal content of the cool (10^4 K) circumgalactic medium (CGM) about galaxies at z<1 using an H I-selected sample of 28 Lyman limit systems (LLS, defined here as absorbers with 16.2<log N(H I)<18.5) observed in absorption…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 N. Lehner , J. C. Howk , T. M. Tripp , J. Tumlinson , J. X. Prochaska , J. M. O'Meara , C. Thom , J. K. Werk , A. J. Fox , J. Ribaudo