Cosmic Origins
Searching for answers about our universe and its origins

Diffuse Gas in Cosmic Ecosystems
Science Interest Group
(DGCE SIG)

Events: Seminar

Feedback and Expansion of Galactic Atmospheres

September 25, 2025 – 4:00pm ET / 1:00pm PT
Mark Voit, Michigan State University

Galaxy evolution is governed by feedback mechanisms that seem to be self-regulating. In galaxy clusters, feedback heating appears to balance radiative cooling, but in smaller halos, the energy input from feedback exceeds radiative cooling and causes the atmospheres of those halos to expand. To measure the total amount of feedback energy input we therefore need to map the baryons associated with halos on scales larger than the virial radius, which is hard to do but essential for understanding how feedback energy regulates a galaxy's gas supply.


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