English
Related papers

Related papers: The hot circumgalactic medium in stacked X-rays: o…

200 papers

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…

Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) can strongly impact the host galaxies by driving high-velocity winds that impart substantial energy and momentum to the interstellar medium (ISM). In this work, we study the impact of these winds…

We use a particle tracking analysis to study the origins of the circumgalactic medium (CGM), separating it into (1) accretion from the intergalactic medium (IGM), (2) wind from the central galaxy, and (3) gas ejected from other galaxies.…

Hydrodynamic simulations of galaxies with active galactic nuclei (AGN) have typically employed feedback that is purely local: i.e., an injection of energy to the immediate neighborhood of the black hole. We perform GADGET-2 simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Clay Hambrick , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Thorsten Naab , Peter H. Johansson

In the context of the upcoming SRG/eROSITA survey, we present an N-body simulation-based mock catalogue for X-ray selected AGN samples. The model reproduces the observed hard X-ray AGN luminosity function (XLF) and the soft X-ray logN-logS…

The observed high covering fractions of neutral hydrogen (HI) with column densities above $\sim 10^{17} \rm{cm}^{-2}$ around Lyman-Break Galaxies (LBGs) and bright quasars at redshifts z ~ 2-3 has been identified as a challenge for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-25 Alireza Rahmati , Joop Schaye , Richard G. Bower , Robert A. Crain , Michelle Furlong , Matthieu Schaller , Tom Theuns

As the signal-to-noise of Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cross-correlation measurements of galaxies improves our ability to infer properties about the circumgalactic medium (CGM), we will transition from being limited by statistical uncertainties…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-20 Emily Moser , Stefania Amodeo , Nicholas Battaglia , Marcelo A. Alvarez , Simone Ferraro , Emmanuel Schaan

Modern cosmological simulations have now matured to the point of reproducing the evolution of realistic galaxy populations across cosmic time. These simulations rely on feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) to quench massive galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 Skylar Grayson , Evan Scannapieco , Romeel Davé , Arif Babul , Renier T. Hough

We use the EAGLE cosmological simulations to study the evolution of the vertical velocity dispersion of cold gas, $\sigma_{z}$, in central disc galaxies and its connection to stellar feedback, gravitational instabilities, cosmological gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Esteban Jiménez , Claudia del P. Lagos , Aaron D. Ludlow , Emily Wisnioski

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

We conduct simulations of $\sim$kpc-scale cool clouds in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), using initial conditions sampled from a highly resolved cosmological magneto-hydrodynamical zoom-in of a Milky Way-like galaxy. We select ten distinct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 Rahul Ramesh , Dylan Nelson , Drummond Fielding , Marcus Brüggen

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

Clusters of galaxies have been used extensively to determine cosmological parameters. A major difficulty in making best use of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) and X-ray observations of clusters for cosmology is that using X-ray observations it is…

Using high-resolution simulations with explicit treatment of stellar feedback physics based on the FIRE (Feedback in Realistic Environments) project, we study how galaxy formation and the interstellar medium (ISM) are affected by magnetic…

We investigate the properties of the intracluster medium (ICM) that forms within N-body/hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters in a \LambdaCDM cosmology. When radiative cooling and a simple model for galactic feedback are included,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott T. Kay , Peter A. Thomas , Adrian Jenkins , Frazer R. Pearce

We compare the properties of galaxies that form in a cosmological simulation without strong feedback to observations at z=0. We confirm previous findings that models without strong feedback overproduce the observed galaxy baryonic mass…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dušan Kereš , Neal Katz , Romeel Dave , Mark Fardal , David H. Weinberg

We use mock images of $z=0.1$ galaxies in the 100 Mpc EAGLE simulation to establish the differences between the sizes and morphologies inferred from the stellar mass distributions and the optical light distributions. The optical, $r$-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-15 Anna de Graaff , James Trayford , Marijn Franx , Matthieu Schaller , Joop Schaye , Arjen van der Wel

The hot circum-galactic medium (CGM) represents the hot gas distributed beyond the stellar content of the galaxies while typically within their dark matter halos. It serves as a depository of energy and metal-enriched materials from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Jiang-Tao Li

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in cosmological simulations generate explosive feedback that regulates star formation in massive galaxies, modifying the gas phase structure out to large distances. Here, we explore the direct effects that AGN…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-06 Aura Obreja , Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to play a critical role in shaping galaxies, but their effect on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) is not well studied. We present results from the COS-AGN survey: 19 quasar sightlines that probe the…