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Shulan Yan

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arXiv2026

FAST Observations of Filamentary and Compact H I Structure in a Magellanic Stream IV Field

The Magellanic Stream (MS) is believed to have formed from gas removed from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds through tidal forces and hydrodynamic interactions with the Milky Way's gaseous halo. It provides an important laboratory for studying how stripped gas fragments, mixes, and evolves in a circumgalactic environment. In this work, we present HI observations of a $3.8^\circ\times2.2^\circ$ field in the MS IV region, using the data from the Commensal Radio Astronomy FasT Survey (CRAFTS). The total HI mass in the analyzed field is $\simeq 5.3 \times 10^{6} (d/120\,{\rm kpc})^{2}\,M_{\odot}$, where $d$ is the distance to the MS IV gas. The data resolve the emission into three coherent filamentary HI structures with related but distinct velocity trends. To characterize the HI structures and study potential multiphase gas, we adopt a Gaussian decomposition procedure to identify and reconstruct sources. Our results indicate that the field is dominated by one major filamentary HI complex, together with several smaller kinematic clump-like components. Among these identified sources, only one source likely shows multiple velocity components. Because several sources appear spatially overlapped in projection, we further examine their apparent overlap regions using position-velocity (P-V) diagrams. P-V diagrams across the apparent overlap region show no clear intermediate-velocity bridge or V-shaped structure, favoring line-of-sight projection over direct cloud-cloud collision. These results demonstrate the value of deep, high-angular-resolution HI observations for resolving faint emission, compact morphologies, and kinematic structure in the MS.

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arXiv2026

The Intrinsic Multiphase Gas--Black Hole Connection across Scales in IllustrisTNG

The relationship between supermassive black holes and the multiphase circumgalactic medium is central to understanding the co-evolution of galaxies and their central black holes. We investigate this relationship using the IllustrisTNG100 simulation with a sample of 5089 central galaxies at $z=0$, measuring the partial correlation between central black hole mass and the mass of cold ($T < 10^4$K), cool ($10^4 \le T < 10^5$K), warm ($10^5 \le T < 10^6$K), and hot ($T \ge 10^6$K) gas within $0.03R_{200}$, $0.15R_{200}$, and $R_{200}$, after accounting for stellar and dark matter halo mass. We find that after removing these confounding factors, black hole mass shows a significant negative partial correlation ($\rho \approx -0.37$) with cold gas within $R_{200}$ and $0.15R_{200}$, whereas warm and hot gas exhibit no substantial intrinsic correlation. The residual plane reveals a threshold pattern: galaxies with over-massive black holes show systematically reduced cold gas, consistent with the cumulative impact of AGN feedback. The anti-correlation persists across environments with a weak trend in local density, and varies with galaxy type (star-forming, green valley, and quenched). These results provide a quantitative multiphase diagnostic of AGN feedback in TNG and support a picture in which feedback progressively removes cold gas, offering testable predictions for future multiwavelength surveys.

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arXiv2026

The Vertical Structure and Asymmetry of Mg ii-enriched Gas in the Milky Way Disk

The physical properties of Milky Way Mgii-bearing gas remain poorly constrained due to the saturation of the near-UV doublet. We utilize the weaker Mgii $\lambda\lambda$1239, 1240 doublet from 482 archival HST/COS extragalactic sightlines to probe this cool gas phase. We identify 43 low-velocity absorbers ($|v_{\rm LSR}|<40\ {\rm km\ s^{-1}}$), yielding a covering fraction ($C_f$) of $32\pm5\%$ for $\log N_{\rm MgII} > 15$. We find that $C_f$ follows an exponential decay relative to equivalent width thresholds, marking a transition from a diffuse medium to localized, dense structures (e.g., cold neutral medium cores). The steep decline of the distribution at high column densities likely reflects the saturation of the turbulent log-normal spectrum and dust depletion. By integrating stellar data, we derive a Mgii scale height $h_{\rm MgII} = 0.12\pm0.02\ \rm\ kpc$ and mid-plane density $n_{0,\rm MgII} = (3.9\pm0.4)\times 10^{-6}\ \rm cm^{-3}$. A pronounced north-south asymmetry exists, with the northern hemisphere displaying a significantly higher mid-plane density ($n_{0,n} \approx 4.7 \times 10^{-6}\ \rm cm^{-3}$) than the south ($3.2 \times 10^{-6}\ \rm cm^{-3}$). This discrepancy suggests that the northern interstellar medium is more spatially concentrated and clumpy, whereas the southern gas is more ubiquitously distributed with a lower average density. These results indicate that Mgii is tightly confined to the disk, governed by a unified depletion law and restricted vertical extent.

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arXiv2026

HI Gas and Star Formation in Major Galaxy Pairs from the FAST All-Sky HI Survey (FASHI)

Atomic hydrogen (HI) plays a fundamental role in fueling star formation in galaxies. However, the behavior of HI gas in interacting systems, particularly galaxy pairs, remains elusive. In this work, we investigate the HI content of major mergers by cross-matching the extragalactic HI catalog from the FAST All-Sky HI Survey (FASHI) with a previously established sample of isolated galaxy pairs. With the superior sensitivity of FAST, we have constructed the largest sample of major mergers with HI detections, consisting of $440$ galaxy pairs: $364$ spiral-spiral (S+S) and $76$ spiral-elliptical (S+E) systems. We examine the HI gas fraction ($f_{\mathrm{HI}}$), star formation rate (SFR) and HI star formation efficiency ($\mathrm{SFE_{HI}}=\mathrm{SFR}/M_{\rm HI}$) for individual galaxies in pairs. The control sample is matched in both stellar mass and redshift. We find that paired galaxies, particularly those in pairs with small projected separations ($d_{\mathrm{p}}<50\ h^{-1}\mathrm{kpc}$), exhibit systematically lower (by $8.8\%$) HI gas fractions compared to the control galaxies. The SFR is enhanced for galaxies in S+S pairs. $\mathrm{SFE_{HI}}$ is $\sim15\%$ higher for galaxies in S+S pairs than in the control galaxies, while spiral galaxies in S+E pairs show no significant difference in $\mathrm{SFE_{HI}}$ compared to the control sample. These findings suggest that the merging process triggers efficient HI gas depletion and enhances star formation, especially in close S+S pairs. Notably, our sample includes $26$ red spirals in paired systems. These galaxies exhibit HI deficiency and suppressed star formation activity compared to the isolated galaxies, indicating that interactions may affect quiescent spirals differently, potentially due to mechanisms similar to ellipticals.

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arXiv2025

HI Content of Group Galaxies from the FAST All Sky HI Survey

We investigate the atomic gas (HI) content of galaxies in groups using early data from the FAST All Sky HI survey (FASHI). Taking advantage of FAST's blind, wide-area coverage and uniform sensitivity, we assemble a sample of $230$ group galaxies belonging to $182$ groups at $z\leq0.03$. These groups were identified using a halo-based group finder, and they have an median membership of $4$ galaxies. We also derived a matched control sample of isolated systems, and apply censored-data modeling to include both detections and non-detections. At fixed stellar mass and color, we find that the global median HI fraction of group galaxies differs from that of controls by only $-0.04$ dex ($95\%$ CI [$-0.18,\ 0.16$]), indicating at most a mild average offset. The signal is not uniform across populations: satellites are HI-poor (median $\Delta f_{\mathrm{HI}}=-0.12$ dex), whereas centrals are not HI-deficient (median $\Delta f_{\mathrm{HI}}=0.13$ dex). Group galaxies located within $0.5R_{180}$ and in denser systems (richness $>10$ or local density $\Sigma>10\ \mathrm{gal\ Mpc^{-2}}$) show stronger negative offsets, whereas galaxies in the outskirts are statistically indistinguishable from the controls. These results refine earlier reports of global group HI deficiency: with deeper blind data and uniform treatment of upper limits, we show that HI depletion is primarily confined to satellites and compact cores rather than being ubiquitous across groups.

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