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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 468, Issue 3, Pages 3737-3745Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx639
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galaxies: formation; galaxies: haloes; intergalactic medium; galaxies: structure
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We use the latest version of the metal line absorption catalogue of Zhu & Menard to study the clustering of MgII absorbers around massive galaxies (similar to 10(11.5) M-circle dot), quasars and radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with redshifts between 0.4 and 0.75. Clustering is evaluated in two dimensions by binning absorbers both in the projected radius and velocity separation. Excess Mg II is detected around massive galaxies out to R-p = 20 Mpc. At projected radii less than 800 kpc, the excess extends out to velocity separations of 10 000 km s(-1). The extent of the high-velocity tail within this radius is independent of the mean stellar age of the galaxy and whether or not it harbours an AGN. We interpret our results using the publicly available Illustris and Millennium simulations. Models where the MgII absorbers trace the dark matter particle or subhalo distributions do not fit the data. They overpredict the clustering on small scales and do not reproduce the excess high velocity separation Mg II absorbers seen within the virial radius of the halo. The Illustris simulations that include thermal, but not mechanical feedback from AGNs, also do not provide an adequate fit to the properties of the cool halo gas within the virial radius. We propose that the large velocity separation MgII absorbers trace gas that has been pushed out of the dark matter haloes, possibly by multiple episodes of AGN-driven mechanical feedback acting over long time-scales.
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