There's an unexpectedly high amount of IP material in the CGM as high as z=5

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A tool for finding and classifying the worldlines of Lagrangian parcels of mass, in the context of hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy formation.

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There's an unexpectedly high amount of IP material in the CGM as high as z=5 #82

Closed zhafen closed 6 years ago

zhafen commented 6 years ago

Originally reported by Zachary Hafen (Bitbucket: zhafen, GitHub: zhafen)

Is this real, or spurious?

Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/zhafen/pathfinder/issue/82

zhafen commented 6 years ago

Original comment by Zachary Hafen (Bitbucket: zhafen, GitHub: zhafen)

Past z~3 the CGM (if defined as within R_vir and outside the galaxy) is a very small physical range, and so should not necessarily be trusted, or at least must be approached differently.