3 papers
astro-ph.HE2025
Cosmic Rays Masquerading as Cool Cores: An Inverse-Compton Origin for Cool Core Cluster Emission
Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert, Emily M. Silich +3
X-ray bright cool-core (CC) clusters contain luminous radio sources accelerating cosmic ray (CR) leptons at prodigious rates. Near the acceleration region, high-energy leptons prod…
astro-ph.GA2025
X-ray emission signatures of galactic feedback in the hot circumgalactic medium: predictions from cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
Emily M. Silich, John ZuHone, Elena Bellomi +6
Little is currently known about the physical properties of the hot circumgalactic medium (CGM) surrounding massive galaxies. Next-generation X-ray observatories will enable detaile…
astro-ph.HE2025
Cosmic Rays Masquerading as Hot CGM Gas: An Inverse-Compton Origin for Diffuse X-ray Emission in the Circumgalactic Medium
Philip F. Hopkins, Eliot Quataert, Sam B. Ponnada +1
Observations have argued that Milky Way (MW), Andromeda, and lower-mass galaxies exhibit extended soft X-ray diffuse halos to radii kpc in the circumgalactic medium…