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We provide an analytic framework for interpreting observations of multiphase circumgalactic gas that is heavily informed by recent numerical simulations of thermal instability and precipitation in cool-core galaxy clusters. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 G. M. Voit , G. Meece , Y. Li , B. W. O'Shea , G. L. Bryan , M. Donahue

Cosmic rays (CRs) are a pivotal non-thermal component of galaxy formation and evolution. However, the intricacies of CR physics, particularly how they propagate in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), remain largely unconstrained. In this work,…

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

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 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

We analyze the properties of the circumgalactic gas (CGM) around 120 galaxies with stellar and dark matter halo masses similar to that of the Milky Way. We focus on the morphology and kinematics of the neutral hydrogen and how this depends…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 Guinevere Kauffmann , Sanchayeeta Borthakur , Dylan Nelson

A major challenge in CGM studies is determining the three-dimensional (3D) properties from the observed projected observations. Here, we decompose the 3D gas density and spatial distribution of cool clouds by fitting a cool CGM model with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-04 Hang Yang , Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman , Li Ji

I model the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) randomly heated and shocked by supernovae, with gravity, differential rotation and other parameters we understand to be typical of the solar neighbourhood. The simulations are 3D extending…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-15 Frederick Gent

The physical characteristics of the Lyman-alpha forest cloud systems are combined with observations on the baryonic mass density of the Universe and constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis to set boundary conditions on the Intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Fisher

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is a vital element in galaxies, as it mediates the baryon cycle essential for regulating galaxy activity. It is also highly complex due to the intricate distributions of temperature, density, metallicity, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Michele Fumagalli

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

The circumgalactic medium (CGM), i.e. the gaseous haloes around galaxies, is both the reservoir of gas that fuels galaxy growth and the repository of gas expelled by galactic winds. Most cosmological, hydrodynamical simulations focus their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-12 Freeke van de Voort , Volker Springel , Nir Mandelker , Frank C. van den Bosch , Rüdiger Pakmor

We study the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of high-$z$ galaxies in the metal enrichment simulations presented in Pallottini et al. 2014. At $z=4$, we find that the simulated CGM gas density profiles are self-similar, once…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrea Pallottini , Simona Gallerani , Andrea Ferrara

We study the multi-phase circumgalactic medium (CGM) of emission line galaxies (ELGs) at $z\sim1.5$, traced by MgII$\lambda2796$, $\lambda2803$ and CIV$\lambda1548$, $\lambda1550$ absorption lines, using approximately 7,000 ELG-quasar pairs…

Large reservoirs of cold (~ 10^4 K) gas exist out to and beyond the virial radius in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of all types of galaxies. Photoionization modeling suggests that cold CGM gas has significantly lower densities than…

We present the analysis of the XMM-Newton data of the Circum-Galactic Medium of MASsive Spirals (CGM-MASS) sample of six extremely massive spiral galaxies in the local Universe. All the CGM-MASS galaxies have diffuse X-ray emission from hot…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Jiang-Tao Li , Joel N. Bregman , Q. Daniel Wang , Robert A. Crain , Michael E. Anderson , Shangjia Zhang

We analyze circumgalactic medium (CGM) in a suite of high-resolution cosmological re-simulations of a Milky-Way size galaxy and show that CGM properties are quite sensitive to details of star formation--feedback loop modelling. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-09 Cameron J. Liang , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Oscar Agertz

A definite prediction from recent N-body/hydro simulations of the structure formation of the universe is the presence of a diffuse intergalactic medium (IGM) in a temperature range of 10^5 - 10^7 K. This hot phase of the IGM may account for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. Daniel Wang

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies serves as a record of the influences of outflows and accretion that drive the evolution of galaxies. Feedback from star formation drives outflows that carry mass and metals away from galaxies to…

Cold, non-self-gravitating clumps occur in various astrophysical systems, ranging from the interstellar and circumgalactic medium (CGM), to AGN outflows and solar coronal loops. Cold gas has diverse origins such as turbulent mixing or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-23 Alankar Dutta , Prateek Sharma , Dylan Nelson