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Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). XIV. The Observability of Emission from Accretion and Feedback in the Circumgalactic Medium with Current and Future Instruments

  • Authors: Vida Saeedzadeh, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, Brian W. O'Shea, Cassandra Lochhaas, Lauren Corlies, Cameron W. Trapp, Britton D. Smith, Jessica K. Werk, Ayan Acharyya, Ramona Augustin, Nicolas Lehner, Anna C. Wright

Vida Saeedzadeh et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1004 .

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Surface brightness maps for three UV emission lines for the Blizzard halo, shown edge-on. Each column corresponds to a different spatial resolution: 0.18, 1, 3, and 6 kpc. These correspond at z = 0.5 (z = 0, 10 Mpc) to ∼ 0.04 (5.6), 0.16 (21), 0.5 (62), and 1 (123) arcsec, respectively. The galactic disk has been removed to isolate CGM emission. The colormap represents surface brightness in units of photons s−1 cm−2 sr−1, with grayscale indicating regions below a representative instrument sensitivity threshold. Colored regions are potentially detectable by instruments with corresponding sensitivity. For reference, at z = 0.5, 6 kpc subtends ∼1″, similar to the limits of seeing-limited ground-based observations, while a space-based telescope or AO-assisted ground-based telescope could reach ∼0﹩\mathop{.}\limits^{\unicode{x02033}}﹩1, or ≲ 1 kpc spatial resolution.

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