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Winds are ubiquitous in galaxies and often feature bubble structures. These wind bubbles are characterized by an external forward shock expanding in the surrounding medium and a wind termination shock separating the cool and fast wind from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-13 Enrico Peretti

Successful models of the low redshift circumgalactic medium (CGM) must account for (1) a large amount of gas, (2) relatively slow gas velocities, (3) a high degree of metal enrichment, (4) the similar absorption properties around both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 Cassandra Lochhaas , Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , David H. Weinberg

We study the properties of cosmic-ray (CR) driven galactic winds from the warm interstellar medium using idealized spherically symmetric time-dependent simulations. The key ingredients in the model are radiative cooling and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-11 Shaunak Modak , Eliot Quataert , Yan-Fei Jiang , Todd A. Thompson

Galactic winds are the primary mechanism by which energy and metals are recycled in galaxies and are deposited into the intergalactic medium. New observations are revealing the ubiquity of this process, particularly at high redshift. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Veilleux , G. Cecil , J. Bland-Hawthorn

Astrophysical gases such as the interstellar-, circumgalactic- or intracluster-medium are commonly multiphase, which poses the question of the structure of these systems. While there are many known processes leading to fragmentation of cold…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-18 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

Galactic winds are crucial to the cosmic cycle of matter, transporting material out of the dense regions of galaxies. Observations show the coexistence of different temperature phases in such winds, which is not easy to explain. We present…

Galaxy-scale outflows of gas, or galactic winds (GWs), driven by energy from star formation are a pivotal mechanism for regulation of star formation in the current model of galaxy evolution. Observations of this phenomenon have proliferated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-14 David S. N. Rupke

We present a multiphase model for the evolution of elliptical galaxies. Diffuse gas, molecular clouds, stars and remnants are taken into account. Cloud--cloud collisions and stimulated processes are the main causes of star formation. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Federico Ferrini , Bianca Maria Poggianti

Galactic superbubbles are triggered by stellar feedback in the discs of star-forming galaxies. They are important in launching galactic winds, which play a key role in regulating the mass and energy exchange in galaxies. Observations can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-17 Osmer Suárez-López , Andrés S. Villares , Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán

While several studies have investigated large-scale cluster winds resulting from an intra-cluster interaction of multiple stellar winds, as yet they have not provided details of the bordering flows inside a given cluster. The present work…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-30 Klaus Scherer , Alexander Noack , Jens Kleimann , Horst Fichtner , Kertsin Weis

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

We present two dimensional hydrodynamic calculations of free expanding supergalactic winds, taking into consideration strong radiative cooling. Our main premise is that supergalactic winds are powered by collections of superstar clusters.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Tenorio-Tagle , S. Silich , C. Munoz-Tunon

We provide an analytic framework for interpreting observations of multiphase circumgalactic gas that is heavily informed by recent numerical simulations of thermal instability and precipitation in cool-core galaxy clusters. We start by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 G. M. Voit , G. Meece , Y. Li , B. W. O'Shea , G. L. Bryan , M. Donahue

The abundance evolution of galaxies depends critically on the balance between the mixing of metals in their interstellar medium, the inflow of new gas and the outflow of enriched gas. We study these processes in gas columns perpendicular to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Peter Creasey , Tom Theuns , Richard G. Bower

The physical origin of high velocity cool gas seen in galactic winds remains unknown. Following Wang (1995), we argue that radiative cooling in initially hot thermally-driven outflows can produce fast neutral atomic and photoionized cool…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-16 Todd A. Thompson , Eliot Quataert , Dong Zhang , David Weinberg

We use FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in hydrodynamic simulations to investigate the co-evolution between Milky Way-size galaxies and their host dark matter halos. We find that the formation of these galaxies follows a two-phase pattern, with an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-29 Qinglin Ma , Yangyao Chen , Houjun Mo

Observational implications are derived for two standard models of supernovae-driven galactic winds: a freely expanding steady-state wind and a wind sourced by a self-similarly expanding superbubble including thermal heat conduction. It is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Avery Meiksin

In this contribution I summarize our current knowledge of the nature and significance of starburst-driven galactic superwinds. These flows are driven primarily by the kinetic energy supplied by supernovae. Superwinds are complex, multiphase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy M. Heckman

We present a semi-analytic treatment of galactic winds within high resolution, large scale cosmological N-body simulations of a LCDM Universe. The evolution of winds is investigated by following the expansion of supernova driven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Serena Bertone , Felix Stoehr , Simon D. M. White

Galactic outflows are a key agent of galaxy evolution, yet their observed multiphase nature remains difficult to reconcile with theoretical models, which often fail to explain how cold gas survives interactions with hot, fast winds. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Fernando Hidalgo-Pineda , Max Gronke , Philipp Grete