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 …

FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

PF Hopkins, A Wetzel, D Kereš… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The Feedback In Realistic Environments (FIRE) project explores feedback in
cosmological galaxy formation simulations. Previous FIRE simulations used an identical …

Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation

PF Hopkins, D Kereš, J Oñorbe… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We present a series of high-resolution cosmological simulations1 of galaxy formation to z=
0, spanning halo masses∼ 108–1013 M⊙, and stellar masses∼ 104–1011 M⊙. Our …

Enzo: An adaptive mesh refinement code for astrophysics

GL Bryan, ML Norman, BW O'Shea… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper describes the open-source code Enzo, which uses block-structured adaptive
mesh refinement to provide high spatial and temporal resolution for modeling astrophysical …

The COS-Halos survey: physical conditions and baryonic mass in the low-redshift circumgalactic medium

JK Werk, JX Prochaska, J Tumlinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the physical conditions of the cool, photoionized (T∼ 10 4 K) circumgalactic
medium (CGM) using the COS-Halos suite of gas column density measurements for 44 …

The cosmic baryon cycle and galaxy mass assembly in the FIRE simulations

D Anglés-Alcázar, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We use cosmological simulations from the FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments)
project to study the baryon cycle and galaxy mass assembly for central galaxies in the halo …

The structure of multiphase galactic winds

DB Fielding, GL Bryan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a novel analytic framework to model the steady-state structure of multiphase
galactic winds comprised of a hot, volume-filling component and a cold, clumpy component …

grackle: a chemistry and cooling library for astrophysics

BD Smith, GL Bryan, SCO Glover… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present the grackle chemistry and cooling library for astrophysical simulations and
models. grackle provides a treatment of non-equilibrium primordial chemistry and cooling for …

Figuring out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving simulated circumgalactic absorption at 2≤ z≤ 2.5

MS Peeples, L Corlies, J Tumlinson… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present simulations from the new" Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo"(FOGGIE)
project. In contrast to most extant simulations of galaxy formation, which concentrate …

The origins of the circumgalactic medium in the FIRE simulations

Z Hafen, CA Faucher-Giguère… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We use a particle tracking analysis to study the origins of the circumgalactic medium (CGM),
separating it into (1) accretion from the intergalactic medium (IGM),(2) wind from the central …