Predictions for the X-ray circumgalactic medium of edge-on discs and spheroids

Abstract

We investigate how the X-ray circumgalactic medium (CGM) of present-day galaxies depends on galaxy morphology and azimuthal angle using mock observations generated from the EAGLE cosmological hydrodynamic simulation. By creating mock stacks of {\it eROSITA}-observed galaxies oriented to be edge-on, we make several observationally-testable predictions for galaxies in the stellar mass range $M_{\star }=10^{10.7-11.2}$M${}_{\odot }$. The soft X-ray CGM of disc galaxies is between 60 and 100\% brighter along the semi-major axis compared to the semi-minor axis, between 10-30 kpc. This azimuthal dependence is a consequence of the hot ($T>10^6$ K) CGM being non-spherical: specifically it is flattened along the minor axis such that denser and more luminous gas resides in the disc plane and co-rotates with the galaxy. Outflows enrich and heat the CGM preferentially perpendicular to the disc, but we do not find an observationally-detectable signature along the semi-minor axis. Spheroidal galaxies have hotter CGMs than disc galaxies related to spheroids residing at higher halos masses, which may be measurable through hardness ratios spanning the $0.2-1.5$ keV band. While spheroids appear to have brighter CGMs than discs for the selected fixed $M_{\star }$ bin, this owes to spheroids having higher stellar and halo masses within that $M_{\star }$ bin, and obscures the fact that both simulated populations have similar total CGM luminosities at the exact same $M_{\star }$. Discs have brighter emission inside 20 kpc and more steeply declining profiles with radius than spheroids. We predict that the {\it eROSITA} 4-year all-sky survey should detect many of the signatures we predict here, although targeted follow-up observations of highly inclined nearby discs after the survey may be necessary to observe some of our azimuthally-dependent predictions.

12 pages, 11 figures, 1 table. Submitted to MNRAS. Comments welcome

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