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Outflows play a pivotal role in star formation as one of its most visible markers and a means of transporting mass, momentum, and angular momentum from the infalling gas into the surrounding molecular cloud. Their wide reach (at least…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-18 Shantanu Basu , Mahmoud Sharkawi , Masahiro N. Machida

We present results from high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of isolated SMC- and Milky Way-sized galaxies that include a model for feedback from galactic cosmic rays (CRs). We find that CRs are naturally able to drive winds with mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 C. M. Booth , Oscar Agertz , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

The present structure of galaxies is governed by the radiative dissipation of the gravitational and supernova energy injected during formation. A crucial aspect of this process is whether the gas cools as fast as it falls into the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. E. J. Nulsen , A. C. Fabian

We probe the spatial distribution of outflowing gas along four lines of sight separated by up to 6 kpc in a gravitationally-lensed star-forming galaxy at z=1.70. Using MgII and FeII emission and absorption as tracers, we find that the…

The formation of galaxies is regulated by a balance between the supply of gas and the rate at which it is ejected. Traditional explanations of gas ejection equate the energy required to escape the galaxy or host halo to an estimate for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. J. Stringer , R. G. Bower , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , T. Theuns

We recently used hydro-chemical simulations to demonstrate that molecular outflows observed in luminous quasars can be explained by molecule formation within the AGN wind. However, these simulations cover a limited parameter space, due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Alexander J. Richings , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

We predict the observational signatures of galaxy scale outflows powered by active galactic nuclei (AGN). Most of the emission is produced by the forward shock driven into the ambient interstellar medium (ISM) rather than by the reverse…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Jesse Nims , Eliot Quataert , Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere

Mass-loss and radiation feedback from evolving massive stars produce galactic-scale superwinds, sometimes surrounded by pressure-driven bubbles. Using the time-dependent stellar population typically seen in star-forming regions, we conduct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-27 A. Danehkar , M. S. Oey , W. J. Gray

We show that the turbulent gas in the star-forming regions of galaxies is unstable to wind formation via momentum deposition by radiation pressure or other momentum sources like supernova explosions, even if the system is below the average…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Todd A. Thompson , Mark R. Krumholz

Galactic winds are associated with intense star formation and AGNs. Depending on their formation mechanism and velocity they may remove a significant fraction of gas from their host galaxies, thus suppressing star formation, enriching the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Mihoko Yukita , Ryan Tanner , Andrew Ptak , Joel N. Bregman , Jiang-tao Li

We employ hydrodynamical simulations using the moving-mesh code AREPO to investigate the role of energy and momentum input from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in driving large-scale galactic outflows. We start by reproducing analytic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Tiago Costa , Debora Sijacki , Martin G. Haehnelt

Roughly ten per cent of OB stars are kicked out of their natal clusters before ending their life as supernovae. These so-called runaway stars can travel hundreds of parsecs into the low-density interstellar medium, where momentum and energy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-04 Eric P. Andersson , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud

Cosmic rays (CRs) are thought to be an important feedback mechanism in star-forming galaxies. They can provide an important source of pressure support and possibly drive outflows. We perform multidimensional CR-magnetohydrodynamic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-01 Xiaoshan Huang , Shane W. Davis

Star formation bursts promote the ejection of material from the hosting galaxies due to the momentum and energy injected by winds from massive stars and supernova explosions. Numerical or analytical models generally consider that the mass,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 J. A. Osorio-Caballero , A. Rodríguez-González , Z. Meliani

Galactic winds are a prime suspect for the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium and may have a strong influence on the chemical evolution of galaxies and the nature of QSO absorption line systems. We use a sample of 1406 galaxy…

The existence of fast moving, cold gas ubiquitously observed in galactic winds is theoretically puzzling, since the destruction time of cold gas is much smaller than its acceleration time. In previous work, we showed that cold gas can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

Several active galaxies show strong evidence for fast ($v_{\rm out} \sim 1000~{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$) massive ($\dot{M} =$ several $\times 1000~\msun\,{\rm yr}^{-1}$) gas outflows. Such outflows are expected on theoretical grounds once the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Kastytis Zubovas , Andrew King

We show that the winds identified with high-redshift low-mass galaxies may strongly affect the formation of stars in more massive galaxies that form later. With 3D realizations of a simple linear growth model we track gas shocking, metal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Tom Broadhurst

We assess the impact of starburst and AGN feedback-driven winds on the CO emission from galaxy mergers, and, in particular, search for signatures of these winds in the simulated CO morphologies and emission line profiles. We do so by…

We study galaxy super-winds driven in major mergers, using pc-resolution simulations with detailed models for stellar feedback that can self-consistently follow the formation/destruction of GMCs and generation of winds. The models include…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-13 Philip F. Hopkins , Dusan Keres , Norman Murray , Lars Hernquist , Desika Narayanan , Christopher C. Hayward