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The circumgalactic medium serves as an interface between the galactic stellar disk and the intergalactic medium. It contains the largest baryon reservoir, and is believed to regulate the star-formation in a galaxies. As such, the curcumgalactic medium (CGM) is a very important component of a galaxy, so determining its physical conditions has been an active field of research. I'll review our work in the past few years and present new results. Using a deep XMM-Newton spectrum we have discovered the hottest component of the CGM. We also found non-solar abundance ratios of metals. Theoretical models of galaxy evolution and feedback must reproduce these properties of the CGM.
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