Lighting Up the Circumgalactic Medium: Strong, Jet-aligned Hα Emission around Radio Galaxies
A primary question is how active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback modifies the circumgalactic medium (CGM). We present a search for faint Hα emission from the cool ionized CGM (T ∼ 104 K) around radio galaxies by stacking background-quasar spectra from Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) sight lines. We take into...