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From Mirrors to Windows: Lyman-Alpha Radiative Transfer in a Very Clumpy Medium
Max Gronke, Mark Dijkstra, Michael McCourt +1
Lyman-Alpha (Ly) is the strongest emission line in the Universe and is frequently used to detect and study the most distant galaxies. Because Lya is a resonant line, photons typ…
A Characteristic Scale for Cold Gas
Michael McCourt, S. Peng Oh, Ryan M. O'Leary +1
We find that clouds of optically-thin, pressure-confined gas are prone to fragmentation as they cool below K. This fragmentation follows the lengthscale $\sim{c}_{\text{…
The Impact of Star Formation Feedback on the Circumgalactic Medium
Drummond Fielding, Eliot Quataert, Michael McCourt +1
We use idealized 3D hydrodynamic simulations to study the dynamics and thermal structure of the circumgalactic medium (CGM). Our simulations quantify the role of cooling, stellar f…