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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 759, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/759/2/137
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galaxies: evolution; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: halo; methods: numerical
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- NSF [AST-10-08134, AST-09-04059, AST-12-10890]
- Luce Foundation
- NASA through a Hubble Fellowship grant from STScI
- AURA under NASA [NAS5-26555]
- [HST-HF-51295.01A]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1008134, 0904059] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We perform high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of a Milky Way mass galaxy in a fully cosmological setting using the adaptive mesh refinement code, Enzo, and study the kinematics of gas in the simulated galactic halo. We find that the gas inflow occurs mostly along filamentary structures in the halo. The warm-hot (10(5) K < T < 10(6) K) and hot (T > 10(6) K) ionized gases are found to dominate the overall mass accretion in the system (with (M) over dot = 3-5 M-circle dot yr(-1)) over a large range of distances, extending from the virial radius to the vicinity of the disk. Most of the inflowing gas (by mass) does not cool, and the small fraction that manages to cool does so primarily close to the galaxy (R less than or similar to 100 kpc, with more pronounced cooling at smaller R), perhaps comprising the neutral gas that may be detectable as, e. g., high-velocity clouds. The neutral clouds are embedded within larger, accreting filamentary flows, and represent only a small fraction of the total mass inflow rate. The inflowing gas has relatively low metallicity (Z/Z(circle dot) < 0.2). The outer layers of the filamentary inflows are heated due to compression as they approach the disk. In addition to the inflow, we find high-velocity, metal-enriched outflows of hot gas driven by supernova feedback. Our results are consistent with observations of halo gas at low z.
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