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Li, J-T, Crain, RA and Wang, QD (2014) Chandra survey of nearby highly inclined disc galaxies - III. Comparison with hydrodynamical simulations of circumgalactic coronae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 440 (1). pp. 859-869. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
X-ray observations of circumgalactic coronae provide a valuable means by which to test galaxy formation theories. Two primary mechanisms are thought to be responsible for the establishment of such coronae: accretion of intergalactic gas and/or galactic feedback. In this paper, we first compare our Chandra sample of galactic coronae of 53 nearby highly-inclined disc galaxies to an analytical
model considering only the accretion of intergalactic gas. We confirm the existing conclusion that this pure accretion model substantially over-predicts the coronal emission. We then select 30 field galaxies from our original sample, and correct their coronal luminosities to uniformly compare them
to deep X-ray measurements of several massive disc galaxies from the literature, as well as to a comparable sample of simulated galaxies drawn from the Galaxies-Intergalactic Medium Interaction Calculation (GIMIC). These simulations explicitly model both accretion and supernovae feedback
and yield galaxies that exhibit X-ray properties in broad agreement with our observational sample. However, notable and potentially instructive discrepancies exist between the slope and scatter of the LX −M200 and LX − SFR relations, highlighting some known shortcomings of GIMIC, for example,
the absence of AGN feedback, and possibly the adoption of constant stellar feedback parameters. The simulated galaxies exhibit a tight correlation (with little scatter) between coronal luminosity and halo mass. Having inferredM200 for our observational sample via the Tully-Fisher relation, we find a weaker and more scattered correlation. In the simulated and observed samples alike, massive non-starburst galaxies above a typical transition mass of M∗ � 2×1011 M⊙ or M200 � 1013 M⊙ tend to have higher
LX/M∗ and LX/M200 than low-mass counterparts, indicating that the accretion of intergalactic gas plays an increasingly important role in establishing the observable hot circumgalactic medium with increasing galaxy mass.
Subject headings: galaxies: general—galaxies: halos—galaxies: normal—X-rays: galaxies
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| Additional Information: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society following peer review. The version of record MNRAS (2014), May, 440(1), pp 859-869 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu329 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2015 09:50 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 14:41 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stu329 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/453 |
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