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Cool outflows in MaNGA: a systematic study and comparison to the warm phase

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2022-02-09 v1

Abstract

This paper investigates the neutral gas phase of galactic winds via the Na I Dλλ5890,5895\lambda\lambda 5890,5895{\AA} feature within z0.04z \sim 0.04 MaNGA galaxies, and directly compares their incidence and strength to the ionized winds detected within the same parent sample. We find evidence for neutral outflows in 127 galaxies (5\sim 5 per cent of the analysed line-emitting sample). Na I D winds are preferentially seen in galaxies with dustier central regions and both wind phases are more often found in systems with elevated SFR surface densities, especially when there has been a recent upturn in the star formation activity according to the SFR5Myr_{5Myr}/SFR800Myr_{800Myr} parameter. We find the ionized outflow kinematics to be in line with what we measure in the neutral phase. This demonstrates that, despite their small contributions to the total outflow mass budget, there is value to collecting empirical measurements of the ionized wind phase to provide information on the bulk motion in the outflow. Depending on dust corrections applied to the ionized gas diagnostics, the neutral phase has 1.21.8\sim 1.2 - 1.8 dex higher mass outflow rates (M˙out\dot{M}_{out}), on average, compared to the ionized phase. We quantify scaling relations between M˙out\dot{M}_{out} and the strengths of the physical wind drivers (SFR, LAGNL_{AGN}). Using a radial-azimuthal stacking method, and by considering inclination dependencies, we find results consistent with biconical outflows orthogonal to the disk plane. Our work complements other multi-phase outflow studies in the literature which consider smaller samples, more extreme objects, or proceed via stacking of larger samples.

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@article{arxiv.2201.08079,
  title  = {Cool outflows in MaNGA: a systematic study and comparison to the warm phase},
  author = {Charlotte Avery and Stijn Wuyts and Natascha M. Förster Schreiber and Carolin Villforth and Caroline Bertemes and Stephen L. Hamer and Raman Sharma and Jun Toshikawa and Junkai Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08079},
  year   = {2022}
}

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This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) following peer review

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