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TAPIR Seminar

Friday, November 17, 2017
2:00pm to 3:00pm
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Cahill 370
Make it, Mix it and Shake it — a recipe for cold gas in circumgalactic medium
Suoqing Ji, Graduate Student, UC Santa Barbara,
Multiphase gas structure is ubiquitous in our universe. Recent observations suggest that large quantities of cold gas with temperature of a few 10^4 K are found in circumgalactic medium (CGM), which extends up to a few times of galactic virial radius. However, the origin and fate of such cold gas still remain unclear. In this talk, I will mainly explore magnetized thermal instability as a promising mechanism for cold gas formation. In addition, I will discuss warm gas generation from MHD turbulent mixing layers, and preliminary particle-fluid simulations of cold cloudlets, which paves the way for final two-fluid model of cold gas in cosmological simulations. (P.S. A number of artistic fridge magnets will be distributed as small gifts at the seminar.)
For more information, please contact Sheri Stoll by phone at 626-395-6608 or by email at [email protected] or visit TAPIR at Caltech.