The cold circumgalactic medium in emission: Mg ii haloes in TNG50
| Autor: | Dylan Nelson, Chris Byrohl, Kate H. R. Rubin, Joseph N. Burchett, Celine Peroux |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
Field (physics) Star formation Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics medicine.disease_cause Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies Resonant scattering Galaxy Luminosity galaxies: haloes [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] Space and Planetary Science Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) medicine Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics galaxies: formation Surface brightness Halo galaxies: evolution Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics Ultraviolet |
| Zdroj: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2021, 507, pp.4445-4463. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stab2177⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1365-2966 0035-8711 |
| Popis: | We outline theoretical predictions for extended emission from MgII, tracing cool ~10^4 K gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of star-forming galaxies in the high-resolution TNG50 cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulation. We synthesize surface brightness maps of this strong rest-frame ultraviolet metal emission doublet (2796, 2803), adopting the assumption that the resonant scattering of MgII can be neglected and connecting to recent and upcoming observations with the Keck/KCWI, VLT/MUSE, and BlueMUSE optical integral field unit spectrographs. Studying galaxies with stellar masses 7.5 < log(M*/M_sun) < 11 at redshifts z=0.3, 0.7, 1 and 2 we find that extended MgII halos in emission, similar to their Lyman-alpha counterparts, are ubiquitous across the galaxy population. Median surface brightness profiles exceed 10^-19 erg/s/cm^2/arcsec^2 in the central ~10s of kpc, and total halo MgII luminosity increases with mass for star-forming galaxies, reaching 10^40 erg/s for M* ~ 10^9.5 Msun. MgII halo sizes increase from a few kpc to > 20 kpc at the highest masses, and sizes are larger for halos in denser environments. MgII halos are highly structured, clumpy, and asymmetric, with isophotal axis ratio increasing with galaxy mass. Similarly, the amount and distribution of MgII emission depends on the star formation activity of the central galaxy. Kinematically, inflowing versus outflowing gas dominates the MgII luminosity at high and low galaxy masses, respectively, although the majority of MgII halo emission at z~0.7 traces near-equilibrium fountain flows and gas with non-negligible rotational support, rather than rapidly outflowing galactic winds. MNRAS 2021, comments welcome |
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