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Circumgalactic medium

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The circumgalactic medium is gas surrounding a galaxy's main stellar body and interstellar gas, typically associated with its halo. accretion, outflow and recycling exchange matter through it. Its observational boundary and inferred mass depend on the adopted halo convention and the gas phases sampled by absorption or emission.

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