Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect

We present a comparison of the physical properties of the ionized gas in the circumgalactic medium and intergalactic medium (IGM) at z ∼ 0 between observations and four cosmological hydrodynamical simulations: Illustris, TNG300 of the IllustrisTNG project, EAGLE, and one of the Magneticum simulation...

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Main Authors: Lim, SH, Barnes, D, Vogelsberger, M, Mo, HJ, Nelson, D, Pillepich, A, Dolag, K, Marinacci, F
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142410
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author Lim, SH
Barnes, D
Vogelsberger, M
Mo, HJ
Nelson, D
Pillepich, A
Dolag, K
Marinacci, F
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Barnes, D
Vogelsberger, M
Mo, HJ
Nelson, D
Pillepich, A
Dolag, K
Marinacci, F
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description We present a comparison of the physical properties of the ionized gas in the circumgalactic medium and intergalactic medium (IGM) at z ∼ 0 between observations and four cosmological hydrodynamical simulations: Illustris, TNG300 of the IllustrisTNG project, EAGLE, and one of the Magneticum simulations. For the observational data, we use the gas properties that are inferred from cross-correlating the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect (SZE) from the Planck CMB maps with haloes and large-scale structure. Both the observational and simulation results indicate that the integrated gas pressure in haloes deviates from the self-similar case, showing that feedback impacts haloes with $M_{500}\sim 10^{12\!-\!13}\, {\rm M_\odot }$. The simulations predict that more than half the baryons are displaced from haloes, while the gas fraction inferred from our observational data roughly equals the cosmic baryon fraction throughout the $M_{500}\sim 10^{12\!-\!14.5}\, {\rm M_\odot }$ halo mass range. All simulations tested here predict that the mean gas temperature in haloes is about the virial temperature, while that inferred from the SZE is up to one order of magnitude lower than that from the simulations (and also from X-ray observations). While a remarkable agreement is found for the average properties of the IGM between the observation and some simulations, we show that their dependence on the large-scale tidal field can break the degeneracy between models that show similar predictions otherwise. Finally, we show that the gas pressure and the electron density profiles from simulations are not well described by a generalized NFW profile. Instead, we present a new model with a mass-dependent shape that fits the profiles accurately.</jats:p>
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spelling mit-1721.1/1424102023-04-07T20:56:45Z Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect Lim, SH Barnes, D Vogelsberger, M Mo, HJ Nelson, D Pillepich, A Dolag, K Marinacci, F MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research We present a comparison of the physical properties of the ionized gas in the circumgalactic medium and intergalactic medium (IGM) at z ∼ 0 between observations and four cosmological hydrodynamical simulations: Illustris, TNG300 of the IllustrisTNG project, EAGLE, and one of the Magneticum simulations. For the observational data, we use the gas properties that are inferred from cross-correlating the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect (SZE) from the Planck CMB maps with haloes and large-scale structure. Both the observational and simulation results indicate that the integrated gas pressure in haloes deviates from the self-similar case, showing that feedback impacts haloes with $M_{500}\sim 10^{12\!-\!13}\, {\rm M_\odot }$. The simulations predict that more than half the baryons are displaced from haloes, while the gas fraction inferred from our observational data roughly equals the cosmic baryon fraction throughout the $M_{500}\sim 10^{12\!-\!14.5}\, {\rm M_\odot }$ halo mass range. All simulations tested here predict that the mean gas temperature in haloes is about the virial temperature, while that inferred from the SZE is up to one order of magnitude lower than that from the simulations (and also from X-ray observations). While a remarkable agreement is found for the average properties of the IGM between the observation and some simulations, we show that their dependence on the large-scale tidal field can break the degeneracy between models that show similar predictions otherwise. Finally, we show that the gas pressure and the electron density profiles from simulations are not well described by a generalized NFW profile. Instead, we present a new model with a mass-dependent shape that fits the profiles accurately.</jats:p> 2022-05-06T17:53:50Z 2022-05-06T17:53:50Z 2021 2022-05-06T17:49:55Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142410 Lim, SH, Barnes, D, Vogelsberger, M, Mo, HJ, Nelson, D et al. 2021. "Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 504 (4). en 10.1093/MNRAS/STAB1172 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press (OUP) arXiv
spellingShingle Lim, SH
Barnes, D
Vogelsberger, M
Mo, HJ
Nelson, D
Pillepich, A
Dolag, K
Marinacci, F
Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
title Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
title_full Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
title_fullStr Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
title_full_unstemmed Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
title_short Properties of the ionized CGM and IGM: tests for galaxy formation models from the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect
title_sort properties of the ionized cgm and igm tests for galaxy formation models from the sunyaev zel dovich effect
url https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/142410
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