Key physical processes in the circumgalactic medium

CA Faucher-Giguère, SP Oh - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Spurred by rich, multiwavelength observations and enabled by new simulations, ranging
from cosmological to subparsec scales, the past decade has seen major theoretical …

Hydrodynamical simulations of the galaxy population: enduring successes and outstanding challenges

RA Crain, F van de Voort - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the progress in modeling the galaxy population in hydrodynamical simulations of
the ΛCDM cosmogony. State-of-the-art simulations now broadly reproduce the observed …

Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation

M Vogelsberger, F Marinacci, P Torrey… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Over recent decades, cosmological simulations of galaxy formation have been instrumental
in advancing our understanding of structure and galaxy formation in the Universe. These …

Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and galaxy clusters: A pedagogical introduction and a topical review of the acceleration, transport, observables, and dynamical …

M Ruszkowski, C Pfrommer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2023 - Springer
Understanding the physical mechanisms that control galaxy formation is a fundamental
challenge in contemporary astrophysics. Recent advances in the field of astrophysical …

Resolving small-scale cold circumgalactic gas in TNG50

D Nelson, P Sharma, A Pillepich… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We use the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulation to
explore the properties and origin of cold circumgalactic medium (CGM) gas around massive …

Multiphase gas and the fractal nature of radiative turbulent mixing layers

DB Fielding, EC Ostriker, GL Bryan… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A common situation in galactic and intergalactic gas involves cold dense gas in motion
relative to hot diffuse gas. Kelvin–Helmholtz instability creates a turbulent mixing layer and …

Interaction of a cold cloud with a hot wind: the regimes of cloud growth and destruction and the impact of magnetic fields

M Sparre, C Pfrommer, K Ehlert - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Multiphase galaxy winds, the accretion of cold gas through galaxy haloes, and gas stripping
from jellyfish galaxies are examples of interactions between cold and hot gaseous phases …

Properties of the circumgalactic medium in cosmic ray-dominated galaxy haloes

S Ji, TK Chan, CB Hummels, PF Hopkins… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the impact of cosmic rays (CRs) on the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in
FIRE-2 simulations, for ultra-faint dwarf through Milky Way (MW)-mass haloes hosting star …

First Results from SMAUG: Characterization of Multiphase Galactic Outflows from a Suite of Local Star-forming Galactic Disk Simulations

CG Kim, EC Ostriker, RS Somerville… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Large-scale outflows in star-forming galaxies are observed to be ubiquitous and are a key
aspect of theoretical modeling of galactic evolution, the focus of the Simulating Multiscale …

Survival and mass growth of cold gas in a turbulent, multiphase medium

M Gronke, SP Oh, S Ji, C Norman - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Astrophysical gases are commonly multiphase and highly turbulent. In this work, we
investigate the survival and growth of cold gas in such a turbulent, multiphase medium using …