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The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is known to contain multiphase gas in various stages of evolution and interaction with the galaxy. In order to characterize its detailed behavior on short timescales, we use a subregion of the TNG100…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Daniel DeFelippis , Shy Genel , Greg L. Bryan

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) plays a crucial role in regulating material and energy exchange between galaxies and their environments. The best means of observing this medium is through absorption-line spectroscopy, but we have yet to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Yue Hu , Evan Scannapieco , Edward Buie , Siyao Xu , Samuel T Sebastian , Om Biswal

Ubiquitous detections of cold/warm gas around galaxies indicate that the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is multiphase and dynamic. Recent state-of-the-art cosmological galaxy simulations have generally underproduced the column density of cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Cameron J. Liang , Ian S. Remming

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is the location where the interplay between large-scale outflows and accretion onto galaxies occurs. Metals in different ionization states flowing between the circumgalactic and intergalactic mediums are…

Intergalactic space is filled with a pervasive medium of ionized gas, the Intergalactic Medium (IGM). A residual neutral fraction is detected in the spectra of Quasi-Stellar Objects at both low and high redshifts, revealing a highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Avery A. Meiksin

The circumgalactic medium (CGM), as the gas repository for star formation, might contain the answer to the mysterious galaxy quenching and bimodal galaxy population origin. We measured the X-ray emission of the hot CGM around star-forming…

Galaxies are surrounded by extended gaseous halos which store significant fractions of chemical elements. These are syntethized by the stellar populations and later ejected into the circumgalactic medium (CGM) by different mechanism, of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Rubens E. G. Machado , Patricia B. Tissera , Gastão B. Lima Neto , Laerte Sodré

The hot component of the circum-galactic medium (CGM) around star forming galaxies is detected as diffuse X-ray emission. The X-ray spectra from the CGM depend on the temperature and metallicity of the emitting plasma, providing important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Aditi Vijayan , Miao Li

The interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies very often contains a gas component that reaches the temperature of several million degrees, whose physical and chemical properties can be investigated through imaging and spectroscopy in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Emanuele Nardini , Dong-Woo Kim , Silvia Pellegrini

The bulk of cosmic matter resides in a dilute reservoir that fills the space between galaxies, the intergalactic medium (IGM). The history of this reservoir is intimately tied to the cosmic histories of structure formation, star formation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Matthew McQuinn

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) is closely linked to galaxy formation and evolution, but difficult to characterize observationally and typically poorly resolved in cosmological simulations. We use spherically-symmetric, idealized,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Cassandra Lochhaas , Greg L. Bryan , Yuan Li , Miao Li , Drummond Fielding

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 connection between halo gas acquisition through the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and galaxy star formation has long been studied. In this series of two papers, we put this interplay within the context of the galaxy environment on large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-09 Sen Wang , Dandan Xu , Shengdong Lu , Zheng Cai , Maosheng Xiang , Shude Mao , Volker Springel , Lars Hernquist

We introduce IGM-Vis, a novel astrophysics visualization and data analysis application for investigating galaxies and the gas that surrounds them in context with their larger scale environment, the Cosmic Web. Environment is an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-29 Joseph N. Burchett , David Abramov , Jasmine Otto , Cassia Artanegara , J. Xavier Prochaska , Angus G. Forbes

Most of a galaxy's mass is located out to hundreds of kiloparsecs beyond its stellar component. This diffuse reservoir of gas, the circumgalactic medium (CGM), acts as the interface between a galaxy and the cosmic web that connects…

We examine the properties of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at low redshift in a range of simulated Milky Way mass halos. The sample is comprised of seven idealized simulations, an adaptive mesh refinement cosmological zoom-in simulation,…

The presence of cold ($T \lesssim 10^4$ K) gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies has been confirmed both in observations and high-resolution simulations, but its origin still represents a puzzle. Possible mechanisms are cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 Davide Decataldo , Sijing Shen , Lucio Mayer , Bernhard Baumschlager , Piero Madau

The intergalactic medium - the cosmic gas that fills the great spaces between the galaxies - is affected by processes ranging from quantum fluctuations in the very early universe to radiative emission from newly-formed stars. This gives the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Rennan Barkana , Abraham Loeb

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

The hot interstellar medium traces the stellar feedback and its role in regulating the eco-system of the Galaxy. I review recent progress in understanding the medium, based largely on X-ray absorption line spectroscopy, complemented by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-12 Q. Daniel Wang