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 …

The Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) Survey: A Nearly Volume-limited Sample of Nearby Dwarf Satellite Systems

SG Carlsten, JE Greene, RL Beaton… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the final sample of the Exploration of Local VolumE Satellites (ELVES) survey, a
survey of the dwarf satellites of a nearly volume-limited sample of Milky Way (MW)− like …

Virialization of the inner CGM in the FIRE simulations and implications for galaxy disks, star formation, and feedback

J Stern, CA Faucher-Giguère, D Fielding… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We use the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations to study the formation of a quasi-static, virial-
temperature gas phase in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at redshifts 0< z< 5 and how …

Cosmological simulations of quasar fueling to subparsec scales using lagrangian hyper-refinement

D Anglés-Alcázar, E Quataert, PF Hopkins… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of a quasar-mass halo (M halo≈ 10
12.5 M⊙ at z= 2) that for the first time resolve gas transport down to the inner 0.1 pc …

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 …

Implications of the pulsar timing array detections for massive black hole mergers in the LISA band

E Barausse, K Dey, M Crisostomi, A Panayada… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
The recent evidence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves in the nHz band by
pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments has shed new light on the formation and evolution of …

Massive black hole merger rates: the effect of kiloparsec separation wandering and supernova feedback

E Barausse, I Dvorkin, M Tremmel… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We revisit the predictions for the merger rate of massive black hole binaries detectable by
the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) and their background signal for pulsar-timing …

The maximum accretion rate of hot gas in dark matter haloes

J Stern, D Fielding, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We revisit the question of 'hot mode'versus 'cold mode'accretion on to galaxies using steady-
state cooling flow solutions and idealized 3D hydrodynamic simulations. We demonstrate …

Multitracer extension of the halo model: probing quenching and conformity in eBOSS

S Alam, JA Peacock, K Kraljic, AJ Ross… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We develop a new Multitracer Halo Occupation Distribution (MTHOD) framework for the
galaxy distribution and apply it to the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey …