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隐藏的环星系介质

The hidden circumgalactic medium

Claudia Cicone, Carlos De Breuck, Chian-Chou Chen, Eelco van Kampen, Desika Narayanan, Tony Mroczkowski, Paola Andreani, Pamela Klaassen, Axel Weiss, Kotaro Koh… 展开作者

Claudia Cicone, Carlos De Breuck, Chian-Chou Chen, Eelco van Kampen, Desika Narayanan, Tony Mroczkowski, Paola Andreani, Pamela Klaassen, Axel Weiss, Kotaro Kohno, Jens Kauffmann, Jeff Wagg, Dominik Riechers, Bitten Gullberg, James Geach, Sijing Shen, J. Colin Hill, Simcha Brownson

摘要:

重子进出星系的循环是最终推动星系形成和演化的原因。环星系介质(CGM)代表了星际介质和宇宙网之间的界面,因此它的性质直接受重子循环的影响。虽然传统上CGM被认为是由温暖和炎热的气体,最近的突破提出了一个新的方案,根据它的质量的一个重要部分可能驻留在冷原子和分子相。这将代表恒星形成的现成燃料,对星系中的馈送和反馈过程具有重要意义。然而,这样的冷CGM,特别是在本地星系,其在天空中的投影大小预计是几个角分,不能成像的ALMA由于干涉空间尺度滤波的大尺度结构。我们发现,探测多相CGM,包括其最冷的组件的唯一方法是通过一个大的(例如50米)单碟(分)毫米望远镜。

英文摘要:

The cycling of baryons in and out of galaxies is what ultimately drives galaxy formation and evolution. The circumgalactic medium (CGM) represents the interface between the interstellar medium and the cosmic web, hence its properties are directly shaped by the baryon cycle. Although traditionally the CGM is thought to consist of warm and hot gas, recent breakthroughs are presenting a new scenario according to which an important fraction of its mass may reside in the cold atomic and molecular phase. This would represent fuel that is readily available for star formation, with crucial implications for feeding and feedback processes in galaxies. However, such cold CGM, especially in local galaxies where its projected size on sky is expected to be of several arcminutes, cannot be imaged by ALMA due to interferometric spatial scale filtering of large-scale structures. We show that the only way to probe the multiphase CGM including its coldest component is through a large (e.g. 50-m) single dish (sub-)mm telescope.

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