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Correa, CA, Schaye, J, Wyithe, JSB, Duffy, AR, Theuns, T, Crain, RA and Bower, RG (2017) The formation of hot gaseous haloes around galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473 (1). pp. 538-559. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
We use a suite of hydrodynamical cosmological simulations from the Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments (EAGLE) project to investigate the formation of hot hydrostatic haloes and their dependence on feedback mechanisms. We find that the appearance of a strong bimodality in the probability density function of the ratio of the radiative cooling and dynamical times for halo gas provides a clear signature of the formation of a hot corona. Haloes of total mass 1011.5–1012 M⊙ develop a hot corona independent of redshift, at least in the interval z = 0–4, where the simulation has sufficiently good statistics. We analyse the build-up of the hot gas mass in the halo, Mhot, as a function of halo mass and redshift and find that while more energetic galactic wind powered by SNe increases Mhot, active galactic nucleus feedback reduces it by ejecting gas from the halo. We also study the thermal properties of gas accreting on to haloes and measure the fraction of shock-heated gas as a function of redshift and halo mass. We develop analytic and semi-analytic approaches to estimate a ‘critical halo mass’, Mcrit, for hot halo formation. We find that the mass for which the heating rate produced by accretion shocks equals the radiative cooling rate reproduces the mass above which haloes develop a significant hot atmosphere. This yields a mass estimate of Mcrit ≈ 1011.7 M⊙ at z = 0, which agrees with the simulation results. The value of Mcrit depends more strongly on the cooling rate than on any of the feedback parameters.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 12 Jan 2018 09:54 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 10:51 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stx2332 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7813 |
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