We characterize the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around a sample of galaxies extracted from state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation in a cosmological volume of 25 Mpc comoving at z similar to 2. The simulations are based on two different subresolution schemes for star formation and supernova feedback: the Multi-Phase Particle Integrator (MUPPI) scheme and the Effective Model. We develop a quantitative and probabilistic analysis based on the apparent optical depth method of the properties of the absorbers as a function of impact parameter from their nearby galaxies: in such a way, we probe different environments from circumgalactic medium to low-density filaments. Absorbers' properties are then compared with a spectroscopic observational data set obtained from high-resolution quasar spectra. Our main focus is on the N-C IV-N-H I relation around simulated galaxies: the results obtained with MUPPI and the Effective model are remarkably similar, with small differences only confined to regions at impact parameters b = [1 - 3] x r(vir). Using C IV as a tracer of the metallicity, we obtain evidence that the observed metal absorption systems have the highest probability to be confined in a region of 150-400kpc around galaxies. Near-filament environments have instead metallicities too low to be probed by present-day telescopes, but could be probed by future spectroscopical studies. Finally, we compute C IV covering fractions which are in agreement with observational data.

Absorption systems at z similar to 2 as a probe of the circumgalactic medium: a probabilistic approach / Mongardi, C; Viel, M; D’Odorico, V; Kim, T -S; Barai, P; Murante, G; Monaco, P. - In: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. - ISSN 0035-8711. - 478:3(2018), pp. 3266-3289. [10.1093/mnras/sty1283]

Absorption systems at z similar to 2 as a probe of the circumgalactic medium: a probabilistic approach

Viel, M
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2018-01-01

Abstract

We characterize the properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) around a sample of galaxies extracted from state-of-the-art hydrodynamical simulations of structure formation in a cosmological volume of 25 Mpc comoving at z similar to 2. The simulations are based on two different subresolution schemes for star formation and supernova feedback: the Multi-Phase Particle Integrator (MUPPI) scheme and the Effective Model. We develop a quantitative and probabilistic analysis based on the apparent optical depth method of the properties of the absorbers as a function of impact parameter from their nearby galaxies: in such a way, we probe different environments from circumgalactic medium to low-density filaments. Absorbers' properties are then compared with a spectroscopic observational data set obtained from high-resolution quasar spectra. Our main focus is on the N-C IV-N-H I relation around simulated galaxies: the results obtained with MUPPI and the Effective model are remarkably similar, with small differences only confined to regions at impact parameters b = [1 - 3] x r(vir). Using C IV as a tracer of the metallicity, we obtain evidence that the observed metal absorption systems have the highest probability to be confined in a region of 150-400kpc around galaxies. Near-filament environments have instead metallicities too low to be probed by present-day telescopes, but could be probed by future spectroscopical studies. Finally, we compute C IV covering fractions which are in agreement with observational data.
2018
478
3
3266
3289
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1283
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.06123
Mongardi, C; Viel, M; D’Odorico, V; Kim, T -S; Barai, P; Murante, G; Monaco, P
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