Launching of hot gas outflow by disc-wide supernova explosions
Abstract
Galactic gas outflows are driven by stellar feedback with dominant contribution from supernovae (SN) explosions. The question of whether the energy deposited by SNe initiates a large scale outflow or gas circulation on smaller scales -- between discs and intermediate haloes, depends on SN rate and their distribution in space and time. We consider here gas circulation by disc-wide unclustered SNe with galactic star formation rate in the range from { to ~yr~kpc, corresponding to mid-to-high star formation observed in galaxies. We show that such disc-wide SN explosion regime can form circulation of warm ( K) and cold ( K) phases within a few gas scale heights, and elevation of hot {( K)} gas at higher ( kpc) heights. We found that the threshold energy input rate for hot gas outflows with disc-wide supernovae explosions is estimated to be of the order ~erg~s~cm. We discuss the observational manifestations of such phenomena in optical and X-ray bands. In particular, we found that for face-on galaxies with SF (~yr~kpc), the line profiles of ions typical for warm gas show a double-peak shape, corresponding to out-of-plane outflows. In the X-ray bands, galaxies with high SF rates (~yr~kpc) can be bright, with a smooth surface brightness in low-energy bands (~keV) and patchy at higher energies (~keV).}
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@article{arxiv.1901.00821,
title = {Launching of hot gas outflow by disc-wide supernova explosions},
author = {Evgenii O. Vasiliev and Yuri A. Shchekinov and Biman B. Nath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.00821},
year = {2019}
}
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11 pages, 11 figures