Comparison of the hot gas CGM profile from our TNG-based model 3 (solid yellow line) in this work with the hot CGM measurement from Z24 based on X-ray stacking at the optical positions of galaxies from the SDSS spectroscopic galaxy catalog (CEN sample). The CEN sample has a mean redshift ⟨z_spec⟩ = 0.08, which is lower than that for the Full_phot galaxy sample, ⟨z_phot⟩ = 0.14, modeled in this work. Therefore, our models (solid yellow, dashed pink, and solid purple) are convolved with the eROSITA PSF representing z = 0.08 to enable comparison with the CEN sample profile from Z24. Our Full_phot-based model 3 convolved with the ⟨z_phot⟩ = 0.14 PSF in shown by the dotted yellow line. For reference, we also show the other two models, 1 and 2, with different underlying halo distributions (see text in Sect. 3.3), which we excluded in this work (see Fig. 2) as the hot CGM component did not allow for a point source component with a luminosity consistent with empirical estimates from the low-redshift Universe. The model 3 from this work is in good agreement with the CEN sample hot CGM profile from Z24.