Virialization of the Inner CGM in the FIRE Simulations and Implications for Galaxy Disks, Star Formation, and Feedback

2021 
Author(s): Stern, Jonathan; Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre; Fielding, Drummond; Quataert, Eliot; Hafen, Zachary; Gurvich, Alexander B; Ma, Xiangcheng; Byrne, Lindsey; El-Badry, Kareem; Angles-Alcazar, Daniel; Chan, TK; Feldmann, Robert; Keres, Dusan; Wetzel, Andrew; Murray, Norman; Hopkins, Philip F | Abstract: We use the FIRE-2 cosmological simulations to study the formation of a quasi-static, virial-temperature gas phase in the circumgalactic medium (CGM) at redshifts 0
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