Joss Bland‐Hawthorn

Early onset of the hot circumgalactic medium around Milky Way galaxies

Abstract Hot coronae are key regulators in Milky Way (MW)-type galaxy formation and are thought to emerge once a galaxy’s dark matter halo crosses a critical mass threshold, Mvir ~ 1012 M⊙, so that accretion shocks can heat infalling gas to virial temperatures, Tvir. Here we inve...