Zooming in on the Circumgalactic Medium with GIBLE: the Topology and Draping of Magnetic Fields around Cold Clouds

Abstract

We use a cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way-like galaxy to study and quantify the topology of magnetic field lines around cold gas clouds in the circumgalactic medium (CGM). This simulation is a new addition to Project GIBLE, a suite of cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation with preferential super-Lagrangian refinement in the CGM, reaching an unprecedented (CGM) gas mass resolution of $\sim$ $225$ M${}_{\odot }$. To maximize statistics and resolution, we focus on a sample of $\sim$ $200$ clouds with masses of $\sim$ $10^6$ M${}_{\odot }$. The topology of magnetic field lines around clouds is diverse, from threading to draping, and there is large variation in the magnetic curvature ($\kappa$) within cloud-background interfaces. We typically find little variation of $\kappa$ between upstream and downstream cloud faces, implying that strongly draped configurations are rare. In addition, $\kappa$ correlates strongly with multiple properties of the interface and the ambient background, including cloud overdensity and relative velocity, suggesting that cloud properties impact the topology of interface magnetic fields.

Accepted for publication (A&A Letters); 5 pages, 4 figures

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