Cooling Flows as a Reference Solution for the Hot Circumgalactic Medium

Imran Sultan, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Jonathan Stern +3

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) in $\gtrsim 10^{12}$ ${\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ halos is dominated by a hot phase ($T\gtrsim 10^6$ K). While many models exist for the hot gas structur…