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Using N-body/hydrodynamic simulations, the influence of non-equipartition processes on the thermal and dynamical properties of cosmological baryonic gas is investigated. We focus on a possible departure from equilibrium between electrons,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Courty , J. -M. Alimi

The cosmic ultraviolet background (UVB) heats the intergalactic medium (IGM), as a result the gas in dark matter halos below a certain mass is too hot to cool within a Hubble time. The UVB effectively suppresses the formation of dwarf…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matthias Hoeft , Gustavo Yepes , Stefan Gottloeber

We study the emission from the hot interstellar medium in a sample of nearby late type galaxies defined in Paper I. Our sample covers a broad range of star formation rates, from ~0.1 Msun/yr to ~17 Msun/yr and stellar masses, from ~3x10^8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Mineo , M. Gilfanov , R. Sunyaev

We analyze measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect arising in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of $L^*$ galaxies, reported by Bregman et al. 2022 and Das et al. 2023. In our analysis we use the Faerman et al. 2017 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Yossi Oren , Amiel Sternberg , Christopher F. McKee , Yakov Faerman , Shy Genel

Most baryons in present-day galaxy clusters exist as hot gas ($\boldsymbol{\gtrsim10^7\,\rm}\mathrm{K}$), forming the intracluster medium (ICM). Cosmological simulations predict that the mass and temperature of the ICM rapidly decrease with…

I study the effect of the galaxies of the Milky Way subgroup on the chemical enrichment of the diffuse gas within the Local Group. The preferred model predicts that the present-day intergalactic medium mass is 1/22 of the initial baryonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leticia Carigi

We compute, including a current state-of-the-art treatment of hydrodynamical processes, heating and cooling, a variety of cosmological models into the extreme nonlinear phase to enable comparisons with observations. First, we note the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Renyue Cen

The intergalactic medium (IGM) is the dominant reservoir of baryons at all cosmic epochs. We investigate the evolution of the IGM from z=2-0 in 48 Mpc/h, 110-million particle cosmological hydrodynamic simulations using three prescriptions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Neal Katz , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

The observed relationship between X-ray luminosity and temperature of the diffuse intercluster medium clearly shows the effect of nongravitational heating on the formation of galaxy clusters. Quasar feedback into the intergalactic medium…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Suchetana Chatterjee , Arthur Kosowsky

The fraction of ionized gas in the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium induces temperature anisotropies on the Cosmic Microwave Background similar to those of clusters of galaxies. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich anisotropies due to these low density,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Ricardo Genova-Santos , Isabel Suarez-Velasquez , Fernando Atrio-Barandela , Jan Muecket

Thermal regime of the baryons behind shock waves arising in the process of virialization of dark matter halos is governed at cetrain conditions by radiation of HD lines. A small fraction of the shocked gas can cool down to the temperature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 E. O. Vasiliev , Yu. A. Shchekinov

We examine the evolution of the phase diagram of the low-density intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionization in simulation boxes with varying reionization histories from the Cosmic Reionization on Computers project. The PDF of gas…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-23 Alexandra Wells , David Robinson , Camille Avestruz , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Using a thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (tSZ) signal, we search for hot gas in superclusters identified using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS/DR7) galaxies. We stack a Comptonization y map produced by the Planck Collaboration…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 H. Tanimura , N. Aghanim , M. Douspis , A. Beelen , V. Bonjean

We use a probabilistic method to compute the propagation of an ionization front corresponding to the re-ionization of the intergalactic medium in a LCDM cosmology, including both hydrogen and helium. The effects of radiative transfer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 James Bolton , Avery Meiksin , Martin White

The variation of temperature and density in the hot, X-ray emitting gas around massive, group dominant elliptical galaxies can be understood as a combination of gas ejected from evolving galactic stars and gas that accumulates in the outer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 William G. Mathews , Fabrizio Brighenti

We study the detailed structure of galaxies at redshifts z > 2 using cosmological simulations with improved modeling of the interstellar medium and star formation. The simulations follow the formation and dissociation of molecular hydrogen,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-09-21 Marcel Zemp , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Andrey V. Kravtsov

Recent years have brought more precise temperature measurements of the low-density intergalactic medium (IGM). These new measurements constrain the processes that heated the IGM, such as the reionization of H I and of He II. We present a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-10 Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck , Anson D'Aloisio , Matthew J. McQuinn

During reionization, the intergalactic medium is heated impulsively by supersonic ionization fronts (I-fronts). The peak gas temperatures behind the I-fronts, $T_\mathrm{reion}$, are a key uncertainty in models of the thermal history after…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Anson D'Aloisio , Matthew McQuinn , Oliver Maupin , Frederick B. Davies , Hy Trac , Spencer Fuller , Phoebe R. Upton Sanderbeck

We show that the gas in growing density perturbations is vulnerable to the influence of winds outflowing from nearby collapsed galaxies that have already formed stars. This suggests that the formation of nearby galaxies with masses less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Andrea Ferrara , Tom Broadhurst

According to the photo-heating model of the intergalactic medium (IGM), He II reionization is expected to affect its thermal evolution. Evidence for additional energy injection into the IGM has been found at $3\lesssim z\lesssim4$, though…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Elisa Boera , Michael T. Murphy , George D. Becker , James S. Bolton