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We determine the thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) over $3\, \mathrm{Gyr}$ of cosmic time $1.8<z<5.4$ by comparing measurements of the Ly{\alpha} forest power spectrum to a suite of $\sim70$ hydrodynamical simulations. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 Michael Walther , Jose Oñorbe , Joseph F. Hennawi , Zarija Lukić

Observations of the 21 cm line from neutral hydrogen indicate that an Epoch of Heating (EoH) might have preceded the later Epoch of Reionization (EoR). Here we study the effects on the ionization state and the thermal history of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-26 Marius Berge Eide , Luca Graziani , Benedetta Ciardi , Yu Feng , Koki Kakiichi , Tiziana di Matteo

At low densities the standard ionisation history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) predicts a decreasing temperature of the IGM with decreasing density once hydrogen (and helium) reionisation is complete. Heating the high-redshift,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 A. Rorai , G. D. Becker , M. G. Haehnelt , R. F. Carswell , J. S. Bolton , S. Cristiani , V. D'Odorico , G. Cupani , P. Barai , F. Calura , T. -S. Kim , E. Pomante , E. Tescari , M. Viel

We present a comparison of the physical properties of the ionized gas in the circumgalactic (CGM) and intergalactic (IGM) media at $z\sim0$ between observations and four cosmological hydrodynamical simulations: Illustris, TNG300 of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-12 S. H. Lim , David Barnes , Mark Vogelsberger , H. J. Mo , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Klaus Dolag , Federico Marinacci

We use the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulation to explore the properties and origin of cold circumgalactic medium (CGM) gas around massive galaxies (M* > 10^11 Msun) at intermediate redshift (z~0.5). We…

We examine the temperature structure of the intergalactic medium IGM) surounding a hard radiation source, such as a Quasi-Stellar Object (QSO), as it responds to the onset of helium reionization by the source. We model the reionization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Avery Meiksin , Eric R. Tittley , Calum K. Brown

Numerical simulations predict a considerable fraction of the missing baryons at redshift z ~ 0 resting in the so called warm-hot intergalactic medium (WHIM). The filaments and sheets of the WHIM have high temperatures 10^5 - 10^7 K) and a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. S. Klar , J. P. Mücket

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) in $\gtrsim 10^{12}$ $\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ halos is dominated by a hot phase ($T \gtrsim 10^{6}$ K). While many models exist for the hot gas structure, there is as yet no consensus. We compare cooling flow…

Over the last decade, observations of the cool interstellar medium in distant galaxies via molecular and atomic fine structure line emission has gone from a curious look into a few extreme, rare objects, to a mainstream tool to study galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Chris Carilli , Fabian Walter

The temperature of the low-density intergalactic medium (IGM) at high redshift is sensitive to the timing and nature of hydrogen and HeII reionization, and can be measured from Lyman-alpha forest absorption spectra. Since the memory of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Adam Lidz , Matthew Malloy

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

A possible explanation of the present discrepancy between the abundance of galactic subhaloes predicted by N-Body simulations with those observed in the Local Group is presented. We study the impact of an early reionization on the baryonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea V. Maccio' , Ben Moore , Joachim Stadel , Doug Potter

We present a new investigation of the thermal history of the intergalactic medium (IGM) during and after reionization using the Lyman-$\alpha$ forest flux power spectrum at $4.0\lesssim z\lesssim5.2$. Using a sample of 15 high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 Elisa Boera , George D. Becker , James S. Bolton , Fahad Nasir

Accumulating observational evidence for a number of radio galaxies suggests an association between their jets and regions of active star formation. The standard picture is that shocks generated by the jet propagate through an inhomogeneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Chris Fragile , Stephen D. Murray , Peter Anninos , Wil van Breugel

We present the results of spectroscopic observations of galaxies associated with the diffuse X-ray emitting structure discovered by Zappacosta et al. (2002). After measuring the redshifts of 161 galaxies, we confirm an overdensity of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Mannucci , G. Bonnoli , L. Zappacosta , R. Maiolino , M. Pedani

The Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM) is thought to contribute about 40-50 % to the baryonic budget at the present evolution stage of the universe. The observed large scale structure is likely to be due to gravitational growth of density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Bykov , F. B. S. Paerels , V. Petrosian

Using one-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations including interstellar heating, cooling, and thermal conduction, we investigate nonlinear evolution of gas flow across galactic spiral arms. We model the gas as a non-self-gravitating,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chang-Goo Kim , Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker

We develop a formalism for the identification and accurate estimation of the strength of structure formation shocks during cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. Shocks not only play a decisive role for the thermalization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christoph Pfrommer , Volker Springel , Torsten A. Ensslin , Martin Jubelgas

The sky-averaged (global) 21-cm signal is a powerful probe of the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the completion of reionization. However, it has so far been unclear that even in the best case scenario, in which the signal is accurately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jordan Mirocha , Geraint J. A. Harker , Jack O. Burns

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