The circumgalactic medium

J Tumlinson, MS Peeples… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The gas surrounding galaxies outside their disks or interstellar medium and inside their virial
radii is known as the circumgalactic medium (CGM). In recent years this component of …

Cool outflows in galaxies and their implications

S Veilleux, R Maiolino, AD Bolatto, S Aalto - The Astronomy and …, 2020 - Springer
Neutral-atomic and molecular outflows are a common occurrence in galaxies, near and far.
They operate over the full extent of their galaxy hosts, from the innermost regions of galactic …

The realm of the galaxy protoclusters: a review

RA Overzier - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2016 - Springer
The study of galaxy protoclusters is beginning to fill in unknown details of the important
phase of the assembly of clusters and cluster galaxies. This review describes the current …

Gravitationally lensed quasars in Gaia – IV. 150 new lenses, quasar pairs, and projected quasars

C Lemon, T Anguita, MW Auger-Williams… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report the spectroscopic follow-up of 175 lensed quasar candidates selected using Gaia
Data Release 2 observations following Paper III of this series. Systems include 86 confirmed …

The REQUIEM survey. I. A search for extended Lyα nebular emission around 31 z> 5.7 quasars

EP Farina, F Arrigoni-Battaia, T Costa… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of quasars a few hundred megayears after the Big Bang represents a major
challenge to our understanding of black holes as well as galaxy formation and evolution …

Zooming in on accretion–II. Cold circumgalactic gas simulated with a super-Lagrangian refinement scheme

J Suresh, D Nelson, S Genel… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In this study we explore the complex multiphase gas of the circumgalactic medium (CGM)
surrounding galaxies. We propose and implement a novel, super-Lagrangian 'CGM …

A complete census of circumgalactic Mg ii at redshift z ≲ 0.5

YH Huang, HW Chen, SA Shectman… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents a survey of Mg ii absorbing gas in the vicinity of 380 random galaxies,
using 156 background quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) as absorption-line probes. The sample …

A stellar feedback origin for neutral hydrogen in high-redshift quasar-mass haloes

CA Faucher-Giguere, R Feldmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Observations reveal that quasar host haloes at z∼ 2 have large covering fractions of cool
dense gas (≳ 60 per cent for Lyman limit systems within a projected virial radius). Most …

Trident: A universal tool for generating synthetic absorption spectra from astrophysical simulations

CB Hummels, BD Smith, DW Silvia - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Hydrodynamical simulations are increasingly able to accurately model physical systems on
stellar, galactic, and cosmological scales; however, the utility of these simulations is often …

Ionized gas outflow signatures in SDSS-IV MaNGA active galactic nuclei

D Wylezalek, AM Flores, NL Zakamska… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The prevalence of outflow and feedback signatures in active galactic nuclei (AGNs is a
major unresolved question which large integral field unit (IFU) surveys now allow to address …