The chemodynamical signature of coherent metal-poor inflow and enriched recycled accretion in the cool circumgalactic medium

arXiv:2607.14359 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-15 · Read on arXiv

Glenn G. Kacprzak, Jerrard Doran, Sameer, James Farrington, Jane C. Charlton, Nikole M. Nielsen, Kaustubh R. Gupta, Christopher W. Churchill, Tania M. Barone, Antonia Fernández-Figueroa

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-15

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Accepted to MNRAS on July 14, 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Metallicity — 66× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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• Spatial-Kinematic Absorption Models of the Circumgalactic Medium. II. Ionized Gas Phases and Absorption Lines
• Spatial-Kinematic Absorption Models of the Circumgalactic Medium. I. Structures, Orientations, and Kinematics
• MUSEQuBES: Probing Anisotropies in Gas and Metal Distributions in the Circumgalactic Medium
• Mainly on the Plane: Observing the Extended, Ionized Disks of Milky Way Analogs in IllustrisTNG
• Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). XV. Examining the Spatial and Kinematic Relationship between Circumgalactic Mg II and O VI

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