Emission from the circumgalactic medium: from cosmological zoom-in simulations to multiwavelength observables

Abstract

We simulate the flux emitted from galaxy halos in order to quantify the brightness of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). We use dedicated zoom-in cosmological simulations with the hydrodynamical Adaptive Mesh Refinement code RAMSES, which are evolved down to z=0 and reach a maximum spatial resolution of 380 $h^{-1}$pc and a gas mass resolution up to 1.8$\times 10^5{h}^{-1}{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ in the densest regions. We compute the expected emission from the gas in the CGM using CLOUDY emissivity models for different lines (e.g. Ly$\alpha$, CIV, OVI, CVI, OVIII) considering UV background fluorescence, gravitational cooling and continuum emission. In the case of Ly$\alpha$ we additionally consider the scattering of continuum photons. We compare our predictions to current observations and find them to be in good agreement at any redshift after adjusting the Ly$\alpha$ escape fraction. We combine our mock observations with instrument models for FIREBall-2 (UV balloon spectrograph) and HARMONI (visible and NIR IFU on the ELT) to predict CGM observations with either instrument and optimise target selections and observing strategies. Our results show that Ly$\alpha$ emission from the CGM at a redshift of 0.7 will be observable with FIREBall-2 for bright galaxies (NUV$\sim$18 mag), while metal lines like OVI and CIV will remain challenging to detect. HARMONI is found to be well suited to study the CGM at different redshifts with various tracers.

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