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Integrated Galaxy Light from Stacking $10^5$ Random Pointings in the Dark Energy Survey Data
Jenna E. Moore, Seth H. Cohen, Philip Mauskopf, Evan Scannapieco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08162

Integrated Galaxy Light from Stacking $10^5$ Random Pointings in the Dark Energy Survey Data
We present a new technique for measuring the integrated galaxy light (IGL) with stacked image data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES). We extract $1\times1$ arcminute cutouts from nearly 100,000 randomly selected positions in the g, r, i, z, and Y bands from the DES data release 2 (DR2) maps. We generate source catalogs and masks for each cutout and the images are subsequently stacked to generate deep images of the sky both with and without sources. The IGL is then calculated by taking the diffe…

The hot circumgalactic medium in stacked X-rays: observations vs simulations
Skylar Grayson, Evan Scannapieco, Johan Comparat, John A. ZuHone, Yi Zhang, Soumya Shreeram, Marcus Bruggen, Esra Bulbul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09123

The hot circumgalactic medium in stacked X-rays: observations vs simulations
Current cosmological simulations rely on active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback to quench star formation and match observed stellar mass distributions, but models for AGN feedback are poorly constrained. The circumgalactic medium (CGM) provides a helpful laboratory to study this process, as its metallicity, temperature, and density distributions are directly impacted by AGN. Recent observations from the eROSITA instrument provide constraints on these distributions through measurements of extende…