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The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. VI. Similarities and Differences in the Circumgalactic Medium

Strawn, Clayton
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Roca-Fabrega, Santi
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Primack, Joel R.
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February 1, 2024
The Astrophysical Journal

We analyze the circumgalactic medium (CGM) for eight commonly-used cosmological codes in the AGORA collaboration. The codes are calibrated to use identical initial conditions, cosmology, heating and cooling, and star formation thresholds, but each evolves with its own unique code architecture and stellar feedback implementation. Here, we analyze the results of these simulations in terms of the structure, composition, and phase dynamics of the CGM. We show properties such as metal distribution, ionization levels, and kinematics are effective tracers of the effects of the different code feedback and implementation methods, and as such they can be highly divergent between simulations. This is merely a fiducial set of models, against which we will in the future compare multiple feedback recipes for each code. Nevertheless, we find that the large parameter space these simulations establish can help disentangle the different variables that affect observable quantities in the CGM, e.g., showing that abundances for ions with higher ionization energy are more strongly determined by the simulation's metallicity, while abundances for ions with lower ionization energy are more strongly determined by the gas density and temperature.

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DOI
10.3847/1538-4357/ad12cb
Web of Science ID

WOS:001156722400001

Author(s)
Strawn, Clayton
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Roca-Fabrega, Santi
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Primack, Joel R.
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Kim, Ji-hoon
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Genina, Anna
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Hausammann, Loic
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Kim, Hyeonyong
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Lupi, Alessandro
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Nagamine, Kentaro
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Powell, Johnny W.
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Corporate authors
AGORA Collaborat
Date Issued

2024-02-01

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume

962

Issue

1

Start page

29

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Cos-Halos Survey

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Adaptive Mesh Refinement

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Star-Forming Galaxies

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Cosmological Simulations

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O Vi

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Absorption Systems

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Baryon Harbors

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Feedback Model

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Ionized-Gas

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Cold Flows

Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LASTRO  
FunderGrant Number

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)https://doi.org/10.13039/100000015

UCSC Foundation Board Opportunity Fund for supporting the AGORA

DE-AC0205CH11231

Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy

NAS5-26555

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February 23, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/205494
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