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The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a pivotal role in regulating gas flows around galaxies and thus shapes their evolution. However, the details of how galaxies and their CGM co-evolve remain poorly understood. We present a new…

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

Galaxies evolve through a dynamic exchange of material with their immediate surrounding environment, the so-called circumgalactic medium (CGM). Understanding the physics of gas flows and the nature of the CGM is thus fundamental to studying…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-16 C. Di Cesare , M. Ginolfi , L. Graziani , R. Schneider , M. Romano , G. Popping

We present the first result in exploring the gaseous halo and galaxy correlation using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) survey validation data in the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS) and Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) field. We…

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

The cold neutral medium (CNM) is where neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) is converted into molecular clouds, so the structure and kinematics of the CNM are key drivers of galaxy evolution. Here we provide new constraints on the vertical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 Daniel R. Rybarczyk , Trey V. Wenger , Snezana Stanimirović

We present the first systematic study of the density structure of clouds found in a complete sample covering all major molecular clouds in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; inner $\sim{}200~\rm{}pc$) of the Milky Way. This is made possible…

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 simulate the flux emitted from galaxy halos in order to quantify the brightness of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). We use dedicated zoom-in cosmological simulations with the hydrodynamical Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES, which are…

The Circum-Galactic Medium of MASsive Spirals (CGM-MASS) is a project studying the overall content, physical and chemical properties, and spatial distributions of the multi-phase circum-galactic medium (CGM) around a small sample of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Jiang-Tao Li , Joel N. Bregman , Q. Daniel Wang , Robert A. Crain , Michael E. Anderson

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is often assumed to exist in or near hydrostatic equilibrium with the regulation of accretion and the effects of feedback treated as perturbations to a stable balance between gravity and thermal pressure. We…

We investigate a mechanism for accelerating cool (10$^4$ K) clouds in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) with cosmic rays (CRs), possibly explaining some characteristics of observed high velocity clouds (HVCs). Enforcing CRs to stream down…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Joshua Wiener , Ellen G. Zweibel , Mateusz Ruszkowski

We use observational measurements of thermal and kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects, as well as soft X-ray emission associated with galaxy groups to constrain the gas density and temperature in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) for dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Xuanyi Wu , Houjun Mo , Cheng Li , Seunghwan Lim

We present results from the ``Quasar hosts Unveiled by high Angular Resolution Techniques" (QUART) survey studying the Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) by observing rest-frame UV emission lines Ly$\alpha$, C IV and He II around two radio-loud…

Thermal instability in the circum-galactic medium (CGM) can be responsible for the existence of cold clouds (e.g., high-velocity clouds) embedded in a hot diffuse medium (e.g., X-ray emitting gas). While many previous studies have analyzed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-24 Izumi Seno , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Jiro Shimoda

Quantitative estimates of the basic properties of the circumgalactic medium(CGM), such as its density and metallicity, depend on the spectrum of incident UV background radiation. Models of UV background are known to have large variations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-21 Anshuman Acharya , Vikram Khaire

How galaxies acquire material from the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is a key question in galaxy evolution. Recent observations and simulations show that gas recycling could be an important avenue for star formation. This paper presents Keck…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-27 Shiwu Zhang , Zheng Cai , Dandan Xu , Andrea Afruni , Yunjing Wu , Wuji Wang , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Mingyu Li , Sen Wang , Xianzhi Bi

We use the TNG50 simulation of the IllustrisTNG project to study cold, dense clouds of gas in the circumgalactic media (CGM) of Milky Way-like galaxies. We find that their CGM is typically filled with of order one hundred (thousand)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-30 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich

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

The 3D structure of The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) informs our understanding of star formation cycles, black hole accretion, and the evolution of galactic nuclei. However, a comprehensive 3D model has remained elusive, as no…

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