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Launching of hot gas outflow by disc-wide supernova explosions

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2019-04-24 v1

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 {6×104\simeq 6\times 10^{-4} to 6×102 M\simeq 6\times 10^{-2}~M_\odot~yr1^{-1}~kpc2^{-2}, corresponding to mid-to-high star formation observed in galaxies. We show that such disc-wide SN explosion regime can form circulation of warm (T104T\sim 10^4 K) and cold (T<103T<10^3 K) phases within a few gas scale heights, and elevation of hot {(T>105T>10^5 K)} gas at higher (z>1z>1 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 4×104\sim 4\times 10^{-4}~erg~s1^{-1}~cm2^{-2}. 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 (ΣSF>0.02 M\Sigma_{_{\rm SF}}>0.02~M_\odot~yr1^{-1}~kpc2^{-2}), 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 (ΣSF>0.006 M\Sigma_{_{\rm SF}}>0.006~M_\odot~yr1^{-1}~kpc2^{-2}) can be bright, with a smooth surface brightness in low-energy bands (0.10.30.1\hbox{--}0.3~keV) and patchy at higher energies (1.68.31.6\hbox{--}8.3~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