Publications (24)
Ultra-Compact High Velocity Clouds as Minihalos and Dwarf Galaxies
Yakov Faerman, Amiel Sternberg, Christopher F. McKee
We present dark-matter minihalo models for the Ultra-Compact High Velocity HI Clouds (UCHVCs) recently discovered in the 21 cm ALFALFA survey. We assume gravitational confinement o…
Accretion-Driven Turbulence in the Circumgalactic Medium
Roy Goldner, Jonathan Stern, Drummond Fielding +3
Simulations suggest that turbulence is ubiquitous in the circumgalactic medium (CGM), though the source and properties of CGM turbulence is uncertain. Using analytic considerations…
Introducing the Descriptive Parametric Model: Gaseous Profiles for Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters
Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, G. Mark Voit, Yannick M. Bahé +14
We develop and present the Descriptive Parametric Model (DPM), a tool for generating profiles of gaseous halos (pressure, electron density, and metallicity) as functions of radius,…
The CIViL* Survey: The Discovery of a C IV Dichotomy in the CGM of L* Galaxies
Samantha L. Garza, Jessica K. Werk, Trystyn A. M. Berg +4
This paper investigates C IV absorption in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of L* galaxies and its relationship with galaxy star formation rates. We present new observations from th…
Radio Recombination Line Contamination in Post-Reionization 21 cm Intensity Mapping
Pip Petersen, Yakov Faerman, Matthew McQuinn
The paper evaluates how radio recombination lines (RRLs) could contaminate post‑reionization 21 cm intensity‑mapping measurements, develops a formalism to predict their impact on t…
The Halo21 Absorption Modeling Challenge: Lessons From "Observing" Synthetic Circumgalactic Absorption Spectra
Zachary Hafen, Sameer, Cameron Hummels +7
In the Halo21 absorption modeling challenge we generated synthetic absorption spectra of the circumgalactic medium (CGM), and attempted to estimate the metallicity, temperature, an…
High-S/N Quasar Observations with HST/COS: Deep Fields for Spectroscopy
Andrew J. Fox, Jerry Kriss, Philipp Richter +49
Hubble is still in prime observing condition for making transformative discoveries in UV astronomy. In this white paper we describe the science case for a deep (S/N>30) UV spectros…
Exploring the Milky Way Circumgalactic Medium in a Cosmological Context with a Semi-Analytic Model
Yakov Faerman, Viraj Pandya, Rachel S. Somerville +1
We combine the Santa-Cruz Semi-Analytic Model (SAM) for galaxy formation and evolution with the circumgalactic medium (CGM) model presented in Faerman et al. (2020) to explore the…
Upper Limits on the Mass of Cool Gas in the Circumgalactic Medium of Dwarf Galaxies
Yakov Faerman, Yong Zheng, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer
We use HI absorption measurements to constrain the amount of cool ( K), photoionized gas in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of dwarf galaxies with $M_* = 10^{6.5-9.5}…
Revealing Cosmic Ecosystems with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2030s and Beyond
Sanchayeeta Borthakur, Tanmay Singh, David French +22
Ultraviolet spectroscopy with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) provides the most direct and sensitive probe of the disk-circumgalactic medium (CGM) interface at radii of 20 kpc, wh…
Modeling Emission-Line Surface Brightness in a Multiphase Galactic Wind: An O VI Case Study
Zirui Chen, Zixuan Peng, Kate H. R. Rubin +6
We present a fast and robust analytic framework for predicting surface brightness (SB) of emission lines in galactic winds as a function of radius up to kpc out in the c…
Comparison of Models for the Warm-Hot Circumgalactic Medium around Milky Way-like Galaxies
Priyanka Singh, Erwin T. Lau, Yakov Faerman +2
A systematic comparison of the models of the circumgalactic medium (CGM) and their observables is crucial to understanding the predictive power of the models and constraining physi…
Marvelous Metals: Surveying the Circumgalactic Medium of Simulated Dwarf Galaxies
Daniel R. Piacitelli, Alyson M. Brooks, Charlotte Christensen +7
Dwarf galaxies are uniquely sensitive to energetic feedback processes and are known to experience substantial mass and metal loss from their disk. Here, we investigate the circumga…
Massive Warm/Hot Galaxy Coronae as Probed by UV/X-ray Oxygen Absorption and Emission: I - Basic Model
Yakov Faerman, Amiel Sternberg, Christopher F. McKee
We construct an analytic phenomenological model for extended warm/hot gaseous coronae of galaxies. We consider UV OVI COS-Halos absorption line data in combination with Milky…
A Comprehensive Investigation of Metals in the Circumgalactic Medium of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
Yong Zheng, Yakov Faerman, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer +7
Dwarf galaxies are found to have lost most of their metals via feedback processes; however, there still lacks consistent assessment on the retention rate of metals in their circumg…
The cool circumgalactic medium of low-redshift star-forming galaxies: I -- Empirical model and mean properties
Yakov Faerman, Jessica K. Werk
We present an analytic model for the cool, K, circumgalactic medium (CGM), describing the gas distribution, thermal and ionization state. Our model assumes (total)…
The Statistics and Environments of Hostless Supernovae
Yu-Jing Qin, Ann Zabludoff, Iair Arcavi +3
Transient surveys routinely detect supernovae (SNe) without obvious host galaxies. To understand the demographics of these "hostless" SNe and to constrain the possible host propert…
Massive Warm/Hot Galaxy Coronae: II. Isentropic Model
Yakov Faerman, Amiel Sternberg, Christopher F. McKee
We construct a new analytic phenomenological model for the extended circumgalactic material (CGM) of galaxies. Our model reproduces the OVII/OVIII absorption observations of…
The COS-Holes Survey: Connecting Galaxy Black Hole Mass with the State of the CGM
Samantha L. Garza, Jessica K. Werk, Benjamin D. Oppenheimer +9
We present an analysis of \textit{HST}/COS/G160M observations of CIV in the inner circumgalactic medium (CGM) of a novel sample of eight z0, LL galaxies, p…
Mapping Galactic Winds and Small-scale Structure in the Circumgalactic Medium with Habitable Worlds Observatory
Joseph N. Burchett, Deborah M. Lokhorst, Yakov Faerman +4
We present a science case for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) to map the circumgalactic medium (CGM) in emission by targeting ultraviolet emission lines, which trace the 10^…
Sunyaev-Zeldovich Signals from Galaxies: Observations, Analytics, and Simulations
Yossi Oren, Amiel Sternberg, Christopher F. McKee +2
We analyze measurements of the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) effect arising in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) of galaxies, reported by Bregman et al. 2022 and Das et al. 2…
Braving the Storm: Quantifying Disk-wide Ionized Outflows in the Large Magellanic Cloud with ULLYSES
Yong Zheng, Kirill Tchernyshyov, Knut Olsen +11
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is home to many HII regions, which may lead to significant outflows. We examine the LMC's multiphase gas ( K) in HI, SII, SiIV, and…
The signatures of density fluctuations and mixing gas in circumgalactic absorption systems
Yakov Faerman, Daniel R. Piacitelli, Matthew McQuinn +1
We investigate the prospects for detecting and constraining density and temperature inhomogeneities in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) using absorption measurements of metal ions.…
Absorption-based Circumgalactic Medium Line Emission Estimates
Daniel R. Piacitelli, Erik Solhaug, Yakov Faerman +1
Motivated by integral field units (IFUs) on large ground telescopes and proposals for ultraviolet-sensitive space telescopes to probe circumgalactic medium (CGM) emission, we surve…