Gravitational Lensing Reveals Cool Gas within 10-20 kpc around a Quiescent Galaxy
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| author | Barone, Tania M. Kacprzak, Glenn G. Nightingale, James W. Nielsen, Nikole M. Glazebrook, Karl Tran, Kim-Vy H. Jones, Tucker Nateghi, Hasti C., Keerthi Vasan G. Sahu, Nandini Nanayakkara, Themiya Skobe, Hannah van de Sande, Jesse Lopez, Sebastian Lewis, Geraint F. |
| author_facet | Barone, Tania M. Kacprzak, Glenn G. Nightingale, James W. Nielsen, Nikole M. Glazebrook, Karl Tran, Kim-Vy H. Jones, Tucker Nateghi, Hasti C., Keerthi Vasan G. Sahu, Nandini Nanayakkara, Themiya Skobe, Hannah van de Sande, Jesse Lopez, Sebastian Lewis, Geraint F. |
| contents | While quiescent galaxies have comparable amounts of cool gas in their outer circumgalactic medium (CGM) compared to star-forming galaxies, they have significantly less interstellar gas. However, open questions remain on the processes causing galaxies to stop forming stars and stay quiescent . Theories suggest dynamical interactions with the hot corona prevent cool gas from reaching the galaxy, therefore predicting the inner regions of quiescent galaxy CGMs are devoid of cool gas. However, there is a lack of understanding of the inner regions of CGMs due to the lack of spatial information in quasar-sightline methods. We present integral-field spectroscopy probing 10--20~kpc (2.4--4.8 R\textsubscript{e}) around a massive quiescent galaxy using a gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxy. We detect absorption from Magnesium (MgII) implying large amounts of cool atomic gas (10\textsuperscript{8.4} -- 10\textsuperscript{9.3} M\textsubscript{$\odot$} with T$\sim$10\textsuperscript{4} Kelvin), in comparable amounts to star-forming galaxies. Lens modeling of Hubble imaging also reveals a diffuse asymmetric component of significant mass consistent with the spatial extent of the MgII absorption, and offset from the galaxy light profile. This study demonstrates the power of galaxy-scale gravitational lenses to not only probe the gas around galaxies, but to also independently probe the mass of the CGM due to it's gravitational effect. |
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| spellingShingle | Gravitational Lensing Reveals Cool Gas within 10-20 kpc around a Quiescent Galaxy Barone, Tania M. Kacprzak, Glenn G. Nightingale, James W. Nielsen, Nikole M. Glazebrook, Karl Tran, Kim-Vy H. Jones, Tucker Nateghi, Hasti C., Keerthi Vasan G. Sahu, Nandini Nanayakkara, Themiya Skobe, Hannah van de Sande, Jesse Lopez, Sebastian Lewis, Geraint F. Astrophysics of Galaxies While quiescent galaxies have comparable amounts of cool gas in their outer circumgalactic medium (CGM) compared to star-forming galaxies, they have significantly less interstellar gas. However, open questions remain on the processes causing galaxies to stop forming stars and stay quiescent . Theories suggest dynamical interactions with the hot corona prevent cool gas from reaching the galaxy, therefore predicting the inner regions of quiescent galaxy CGMs are devoid of cool gas. However, there is a lack of understanding of the inner regions of CGMs due to the lack of spatial information in quasar-sightline methods. We present integral-field spectroscopy probing 10--20~kpc (2.4--4.8 R\textsubscript{e}) around a massive quiescent galaxy using a gravitationally lensed star-forming galaxy. We detect absorption from Magnesium (MgII) implying large amounts of cool atomic gas (10\textsuperscript{8.4} -- 10\textsuperscript{9.3} M\textsubscript{$\odot$} with T$\sim$10\textsuperscript{4} Kelvin), in comparable amounts to star-forming galaxies. Lens modeling of Hubble imaging also reveals a diffuse asymmetric component of significant mass consistent with the spatial extent of the MgII absorption, and offset from the galaxy light profile. This study demonstrates the power of galaxy-scale gravitational lenses to not only probe the gas around galaxies, but to also independently probe the mass of the CGM due to it's gravitational effect. |
| title | Gravitational Lensing Reveals Cool Gas within 10-20 kpc around a Quiescent Galaxy |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.07984 |