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 …

Hot atmospheres, cold gas, AGN feedback and the evolution of early type galaxies: a topical perspective

N Werner, BR McNamara, E Churazov… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
Most galaxies comparable to or larger than the mass of the Milky Way host hot, X-ray
emitting atmospheres, and many such galaxies are radio sources. Hot atmospheres and …

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 …

Characterizing circumgalactic gas around massive ellipticals at z ∼ 0.4 – II. Physical properties and elemental abundances

FS Zahedy, HW Chen, SD Johnson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a systematic investigation of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) within projected
distances d< 160 kpc of luminous red galaxies (LRGs). The sample comprises 16 …

MUSE Analysis of Gas around Galaxies (MAGG) – II: metal-enriched halo gas around z ∼ 1 galaxies

R Dutta, M Fumagalli, M Fossati… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We present a study of the metal-enriched cool halo gas traced by Mg ii absorption around
228 galaxies at z∼ 0.8–1.5 within 28 quasar fields from the MUSE Analysis of Gas around …

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) V: on the thermodynamic properties of the cool circumgalactic medium at z ≲ 1

Z Qu, HW Chen, GC Rudie, FS Zahedy… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents a systematic study of the photoionization and thermodynamic properties
of the cool circumgalactic medium (CGM) as traced by rest-frame ultraviolet absorption lines …

Column Density, Kinematics, and Thermal State of Metal-bearing Gas within the Virial Radius of z∼ 2 Star-forming Galaxies in the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey

GC Rudie, CC Steidel, M Pettini… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the Keck Baryonic Structure Survey (KBSS) including the first
detailed measurements of the column densities, kinematics, and internal energy of metal …

Cloudy with a chance of rain: accretion braking of cold clouds

B Tan, SP Oh, M Gronke - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the survival, growth, and dynamics of cold gas is fundamental to galaxy
formation. While there has been a plethora of work on 'wind tunnel'simulations that study …

The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) – VI. Connecting physical properties of the cool circumgalactic medium to galaxies at z ≈ 1

Z Qu, HW Chen, GC Rudie, SD Johnson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents a newly established sample of 19 unique galaxies and galaxy groups at
redshift z= 0.89–1.21 in six QSO fields from the Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) …

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 …