Astro2020: Hot Drivers of Stellar Feedback from 10 to 10,000 pc
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2019-03-26 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
Stellar feedback -- stars regulating further star formation through the injection of energy and momentum into the interstellar medium -- operates through a complex set of processes that originate in star clusters but shape entire galaxies. A mature theory of stellar feedback is essential to a complete theory of star and galaxy formation, but the energy and momentum injected by hot gas into its surroundings remains unclear. With a next-generation X-ray observatory, breakthrough progress can be made through precision measurements of the temperature, density, velocity, and abundances of hot gas on scales of star clusters to galactic superwinds.
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@article{arxiv.1903.09692,
title = {Astro2020: Hot Drivers of Stellar Feedback from 10 to 10,000 pc},
author = {Edmund Hodges-Kluck and Laura A. Lopez and Mihoko Yukita and Andrew Ptak and Douglas Swartz and Panayiotis Tzanavaris and Sylvain Veilleux and Joel N. Bregman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09692},
year = {2019}
}
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white paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey